The July 2022 AI in Government event featured guest speaker is Stuart Wagner, Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the US Air Force and US Space Force and his presentation ‘DevSecOps forgot about the data – Leveraging hackathons to force risk assessments of classified operational data’ on Thursday, July 21, 2022 from 11:30 AM – 1 PM ET!’
To demonstrate what happens when USAF unshackles the data and creatively removes security barriers to build emergent capabilities, USAF organized its first department-wide, SECRET classification innovation hackathon at the Nellis Air Force providing weapons system data and allowing participants unprecedented development freedom over six days of 24-hour operations. Eleven teams demonstrated that the US Air Force is capable of developing weapons capabilities in under 1 week. In just three months, over half of the developed projects have been picked up for further development or use by Air Force organizations.’
One project is already operational on a weapons system in the European theatre, while it’s believed as many as four more will be fielded by Air Force sponsors in the next year. In this session, Stuart Wagner, the Department of the Air Force’s Chief Digital Transformation Officer, will discuss the original vision and execution for the hackathon series, and how he’s building a coalition to revolutionize modern warfare. If the DoD can develop telemetry OODA loops into all its technology and software projects, warfighters and engineers will rapidly iterate capability and tactics against known and newly discovered adversary capability providing significant agility and competitive advantage.
