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USAF software factories

Air Force Contemplates Reorganizing Software Factories; Kessel Run Looks to Expand

Aug. 12, 2022 | By Greg Hadley
The Air Force's network of software development teams has grown prodigiously in recent years, with 17 software factories, three software engineering groups, and two enterprise services spread across the U.S. Now, however, USAF is reconsidering how it wants to organize those teams—having them work more ...

Newest Air Force Software Factory Aims to Help AFRL, Attritable Aircraft Programs

Jan. 20, 2022 | By Greg Hadley
The Air Force stood up its first software factory, Kessel Run, in 2017 with the aim of coding just like the commercial tech industry. Five years later, the department has 17 different software factories, each focused on developing in-house products for different missions. The latest, ...

Air Force Research Lab Prototyping DevSecOps Approach for Avionics Hardware

Oct. 1, 2021 | By Shaun Waterman
To build aircraft and weapons systems that are cybersecure by design and hardened against hacking during development, the Air Force plans to take the radical new DevSecOps approach it has pioneered in its software factories and apply it to avionics hardware and embedded systems.

Roper Says USAF’s Software Factories Need Inside Defense Against Hacking

Dec. 18, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
The Air Force's in-house software factories have become hacking targets because they are accelerating the service's fielding of new capabilities, and must be defended as the "crown jewels" they are. The Pentagon needs to apply "Zero-Trust" technology in its data systems, not only keeping hackers ...
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