Software Factories Driving Modernization at DOD

The White House and Pentagon tech leaders emphasize the importance of IT modernization after lessons learned from the Russia-Ukraine war: future fights will combine kinetic and information warfare, highlighting the criticality of cyber-secure software development for the modern warfighter. Software factories teach soldiers, seamen, airmen and Marines to code and tweak applications in a rapidly shifting, digitized battle space.

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Lt. Col. Charlie Bahk Director, Marine Corps Software Factory
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Jay Bonci CTO, Department of the Air Force
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Patrick Johnson Director, Workforce Innovation Directorate in the Office of the CIO, DOD
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Lauren Knausenberger CIO, Department of the Air Force
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Col. Richard Lopez Senior Materiel Leader, Kessel Run, U.S. Air Force
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Tom Rondeau Principal Director for FutureG & 5G at the Pentagon’s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
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Christopher Yates DOD Army Chief Architect, Red Hat
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