Monthly meetings
June 2024 - Agile
Introductions:
- Dr. Suzette Johnson, is a Fellow at Northrop Grumman. Focusing on the Space sector, she promotes the implementation of Industrial DevOps – Lean, Agile and DevOps in large scale software/hardware systems environments
- Ms. Robin Yeman, currently working with SEI with Space Domain defense and gov organization to improve their software intensive systems – Enterprise Lean Agile leader
- Dr. Jeff Boleng, Aircraft cybersecurity lead at Joby Aviation – retired Air Force, former Deputy Dept Head of Computer Science at USAFA, Acting CTO at CMU/SEI, and special assistant to Hon Ellen Lord (OUSD/A&S) for software acquisition
- Lt Col Michael Tanner, Materiel Leader · Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Program Manager for defense acquisitions, research, and development with an emphasis in leveraging DevOps Discussion and Q&A
May 2024 - APIs
Opening Remarks Allan Dianic, Director Software Engineering OUSD (R&E) and Sean Brady, Deputy Director, Joint Interoperability; Senior Lead for SW Modernization
NATO API Writing Team - Technical introduction Allan Dianic
Ryan Schultz - Joint Staff, J6 Data and Services Division Chief
Dr. Tamsin Moye - NATO UK - Digital Standardization and Interoperability Branch - Defence Investment / NATO Digital Staff
Operation Overmatch technical introduction Allan Dianic
Raffianne Doyle - Chief Engineer SSTC, CDAO
Guide Update Software S&T I-Plan Mark Cornwell - Senior Software Engineer, OSD OUSD R-E
APIs for Maven / AI Products Sean Batir – NGA CTO
API Acquisition Discussions/Presentations
The Road to a DoD API Mandate Sean Brady
Army API Mandate and Vision Alfred Hull – Chief, Data Integration Division, Army CIO/CDAO
Closing Remarks Allan Dianic and Sean Brady
March 2024 - Flow Metrics
Opening
Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework Dr. Mik Kersten, the CTO of Planview
Lt Col Michael Tanner, US Air Force, Program Manager for defense acquisitions, research, and development
Lt Col Chris Hockings, US Air Force, Branch Chief in SAF-AQ, Materiel Leader
Open Discussion and Q&A
February 2024 - Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E)
Opening
“Pioneer T&E of weapon systems built to change over time” Overview: DOT&E Implementation Plan Pillar 4: Nilo Thomas, Action Officer, OSD DOTE, Dr. Kristen Alexander, Chief Learning and Artificial Intelligence Officer, OSD DOTE
Software and Cyber T&E Workforce Pathfinder: Jeff Upton, Kari Lippert, DOT&E and Threat Systems Management Office (TSMO)
Risk Acceptance Level of Test (RALOT): Nanette Brown, Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
Commercial Software Tool Investigation: Hamed Okravi, MIT LL
Automated User Feedback and OT&E Software T&E Companion Guide: Nilo Thomas, Timothy Mott, Andrew Pollner, Pillar 4 Scientific Test and Analysis Techniques Center of Excellence (STAT COE)
Closing Remarks
January 2024 - AI Adoption
BRAVO 11 Hackathon: Stuart Wagner, Data Scientist, Chief Technology Officer, USAF
CENTCOM – AI Use Cases: Schuyler Moore, Chief Technology Officer, Michael Foster, Chief Data Officer, CENTCOM
DoD CIO - State of DevSecOps Report Overview: Bill Nichols, Technical Lead, SEI
DAU/A&S/CDAO – Formal Acquisition Guidance – AI Sub-path: Matt MacGregor, Rhonda Maus, Eric Obergfell and Colleen Murphy
CDAO – Access to Digital On-Demand Learning Platform: Vicki Huchette, CDAO
CDAO – DoD Data, Analytics and AI Adoption Strategy: Aaron Schumacher, CDAO
Q&A
Closing Remarks
NOVEMBER 2023 - Cloud
Introduction: Jim Nelson
DISA J9 Hosting and Compute Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC): James Retallick
JWCC Memo/CATMS Action: Aaron Cummings
DISA J9 HaC VULCAN: Dave Lago
TRMC Cloud Hybrid Edge to Enterprise Evaluation and Test Analysis Suite (CHEETAS) Ryan Norman
Open Discussion: Q&A
OCTOBER 2023 - Software Factory Deep-dive
Introduction
Capt Matthew Robinson, Modeling and Simulation Officer, LtCol Charlie Bahk, Deputy Commandant for Information: Marine Corps Software Factory
Deborah Cessna: Navy DNA Nucleus
Keely Albrecht, Product Owner DevSecOps: Black Pearl and MCBOSS
Matt Nelson, BESPIN CTO: BESPIN
Open Discussion: Q&A
Closing Remarks
10-12-2023 DevSecOps CoP - Software Factories Deep Dive FINAL.pdf
September 2023 - Software Acquisition Pathway
Scott Smith, Software Acquisition Pathway Lead, OUSD (A&S) and team: “Software Pathway Update for the DevSecOps Community of Practice”
Jonathan Lister, Operations Research Analyst, AFCAA, Steven Cox, Tecolote Research, Inc.: “Cost Estimating for Software Acquisition Pathway Programs”
Ipek Ozkaya, Technical Director, Engineering Intelligent Software Solutions, Brigid O’Hearn, Senior Software Acquisition Innovation Specialist, SEI: “FY2022 NDAA Section 835 Independent Study on Technical Debt in Software-Intensive Systems”
Closing Remarks – Rob Vietmeyer
09-14-2023 DevSecOps CoP - Software Acquistion Pathway FINAL.pdf
August 2023 - Training - Our 50th Session!
Keynote
Tom Morton, Lead for Application Management - Advana
Allan Dianic, Director, Software Engineering, OUSD (R&E), Dave Pearson, DAU, and Team
Alfredo Rodriguez III, Enterprise Cyberspace Workforce Program Manager, US Marine Corps Information Development Institute and Daryck Fickel, Cyber Workforce Analyst
Dr. Tanya L Johnson, Management & Program Analyst, DODHRA/DCPAS, Katharine Thomas, DAU, and Ayanna Baker
JULY 2023 - Large Language Models/ChatGPT
Schuyler Moore Chief Technical Officer, CENTCOM
Seth Morrell Policy Advisor, OSD OUSD Policy
Diane Staheli Responsible AI SME, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Nic Chaillan Former CSO of the Air Force and Space Force
JUNE 2023 - FinOps
Keynote
Melvin Brown, Deputy Chief Information Officer, U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Nathan Cost, CAMO and CSMS Program Manager US Army ECMA and CAMO/CT Team
Alexis Masterson and William Kasenchar, IT Specialist General Services Agency
Rob Martin FinOps Foundation
Closing Remarks
Jim Nelson, DoD CIO IE
APRIL 2023 - Modernization Plan
Keynote
Ms. Lily Zeleke, Deputy CIO for Information Enterprise
Goal #1 Accelerate the DoD Enterprise Cloud Environment
DISA – Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) – Steven Rudy, JWCC Project Lead
Goal #2 Establish Department-wide Software Factory Ecosystem
CDAO – Technical Exchange Patterns with [x]BOMS – Erica Dretzka, Director, Future Analytic Architecture
Team 8 – Virtualization: Unlocking Software Modularity of Embedded Systems, Felix Cortez, Product Owner
Goal #3 Transform Processes to Enable Resilience and Speed
DoD CIO – Advancing Workforce Management – Dr. Cynthia Devita-Cochrane, Lead, DCWF Refresh Team
Closing remarks
04-13-2023-DevSecOps-CoP-SW-Modernization-I-Plan-FINALv3.pdf