One of the Pentagon’s key software development leaders said the Air Force is getting ready for a significant showcase of the service’s ability to push out software updates to warfighters in the coming weeks.
“We're working on pretty cool announcements coming in the next few weeks with the ability to update the software of a jet while flying,” Nicolas Chaillan, chief software officer for the U.S. Air Force, said during a webinar Tuesday. “So that’s the kind of stuff that will be game changing.”
Chaillan declined to get into specifics, but the demonstration could serve as a proof of concept for DevSecOps that would show how software updates can be pushed safely and securely to warfighters in real time. He mentioned the demo in response to a moderator question asking whether expectations for what innovative digital architectures can accomplish are too high.
Chaillan leads the Defense Department’s DevSecOps initiative, which includes a team called Platform One and a cloud solution called Cloud One. The initiative aims to to simplify and speed up software development across DOD.
The idea is to create a centralized location with baked-in security protocols so that developers can deploy software updates on condensed timelines, ideally multiple times a day. The initiative relies on an open-sourced system for the orchestration of hardened containers called Kubernetes. Cloud One uses cloud services provided both by Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure.
The Air Force pulled off a successful demonstration highlighting the importance of Cloud One earlier this month. The exercise brought participants together to simulate blowing up a cruise missile. According to Will Roper, assistant secretary of ..
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