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Air Force Chief Software Officer Nicolas Chaillan and industry experts explain how Platform One is eliminating barriers to entry for DevSecOps teams.
Pockets of software expertise and innovation are popping up all across the Defense Department: The Navy’s Black Pearl soft-launched last fall and Army Futures Command’s Army Software Factory gathered its first cohort of soldiers in January, joining the likes of the Air Force’s Kessel Run and Kobayashi Maru.
Cloud computing speeds up new military software Army Futures Command s Software Factory, newly opened in Texas. (Luke J. Allen/U.S. Army) At the recently launched Army Software Factory in Austin, Texas, platform product manager Capt. James Cho uses cloud computing to speed software development. Coders who create software for anything from streamlining warehouse operations to improving soldiers’ battlefield performance take advantage of the cloud’s shared storage, databases and networking that make computing resources more powerful and flexible than those available in on-site data centers. With cloud, “you can dynamically spin up more instances or compute power as needed,” Cho said. “A lot of the toil you would have in managing an on-prem solution for this is abstracted away, and it reduces the amount of work we have to do scale these applications for deployment across the Army.”
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The U.S. Army Futures Command on Thursday hosted a ceremony celebrating the opening of the Army Software Factory at Austin Community College s Rio Grande Campus.
Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the 20th chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, was in attendance. Milley is the nation s highest-ranking officer who serves as the principal military advisor to the president, secretary of defense and the National Security Council.
The factory will lead a future force design through four main objectives:
increase digital proficiencies across the force