Disruptive DevSecOps Recap

The Air Force’s DevSecOps initiative, especially with its recent PlatformOne project, is paving the way for a Defense Department-wide adoption of shared managed services.

The Air Force’s Deputy CIO Lauren Knausenberger and Chief Software Officer Nicolas Chaillan discuss where the service is innovating for the warfighter, the beginnings of DevSecOps with Kessel Run, how they are thinking about the cyber stack and what efforts they are taking to build a new culture around the framework. Plus, they discuss how other agencies can take advantage of the platform and progress toward DevSecOps models of their own.

When building hardware for software systems, infrastructure as code (IaC) provides repeatable, predictable processes. Leaders discuss the impact of IaC on software development and delivery, and where it falls within DevSecOps efforts at their agencies.

Speakers include:

• Rob Brown, CTO, Citizen and Immigration Services
• Col. Charles Destefani, Deputy CDO, Air Force
• Ty Schneider, Systems Engineer, Department of Veterans Affairs

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) and advanced data analytics are making some federal agencies more proactive rather throughout the product life cycle. In a DevSecOps approach, technologies like robotic processing automation (RPA) and AI are also helping shift manual processes within IT infrastructure environments.

Speakers include:

• Col. David Bradshaw, Deputy Director of the AI Task Force, Army Futures Command
• Dave Catanoso, Director of the Enterprise Cloud Solutions Office, Department of Veterans Affairs
• Ron Thompson, Chief Data Officer and Deputy Director for Digital Transformation, NASA
• Matt Walker, Federal Regional Sales Director, Dell Technologies