The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s (AFLCMC) Detachment 12, which goes by the operational name, “Kessel Run,” is one of the most innovative organizations within the Department of Defense (DoD). However, while many across the public and private sectors…
Is a cATO Possible in Today’s Military?
In the last episode of the ContinuousX Podcast, hosts Rick Stewart and Michael Fitzurka of DLT were joined by Kaitlin Bulavinetz, the Chief of Staff to the Chief Software Officer of the United States Air Force, to talk about enabling…
Kaitlin Bulavinetz Discusses the Cultural Changes Needed to Embrace DevSecOps in the Air Force
The benefits of shifting from a traditional “waterfall” approach to application development to a DevSecOps approach to application development have been well documented – including in the GovDevSecOpsHub. Ultimately, by shifting security left in the development process, application development teams…
Everyone Into the Platform One Pool!
The Air Force wants to open its Platform One services to private sector partnerships with the hope of tapping into a consortium of academic and industry organizations to enhance its coding environment. Platform One is an environment provisioned by the…
Why DevSecOps is a Hot Topic in the Federal Government – a Q&A with Maya Kaczorowski of GitHub
As we’ve heard from government and military IT leaders and decision-makers – from Nicolas Chaillan, the Chief Software Officer for the Air Force, to Katie Arrington, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense…
DevSecOps Delivers the Benefits of “Interchangeable Parts” to Government Application Development
This article was authored by Chris Yates, a Senior Solutions Architect at Red Hat, and originally published on the IBM Center for the Business of Government. Read the original article in its entirety by clicking HERE. Eli Whitney, famed inventor…
Nicolas Chaillan Discusses Platform One on the ContinuousX Podcast
There are few individuals within the government and military with as much buzz as Nicolas Chaillan, the Chief Software Officer for the Air Force that also serves as the co-lead for the Department of Defense Enterprise DevSecOps Initiative with the…
DevOps is Desired but Security is Required: Bringing Them Together with DevSecOps
This article was written and submitted by Ben Chicoski of CloudBees. It was originally published on the CloudBees online publication and is available in its entirety HERE. Application developers are enthusiastic to move quickly and innovate. Unfortunately, that enthusiasm sometimes…

