Dr. Jeff Boleng, Special Advisor for Software Acquisition, to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, held a roundtable with the Defense Innovation Board (DIB) to discuss how DoD can “shift left” and optimize the long tail of weapons software certification (e.g., weapons safety, flight safety, nuclear surety, cyber security, etc.) and testing (e.g., Developmental, Operational, Live Fire). On a modern battlefield and in a future war, DoD may need to change complex software every day as a necessary factor for winning. “Shift left” and adopting private-sector, modern software development practices, will be key to accelerating software-based capabilities to weapon systems and the Warfighter.
Roundtable Segments:0:02:11 > Shifting Left: optimizing the long tail of weapon systems test & certification
0:11:44 > DoD’s Test Culture: increasing release confidence and frequency through models and modular design
0:14:50 > Training & Risk Trade-off: how much system change can our adaptive warfighters handle?
0:21:18 > Rapid Integration & Interoperability for multi-jet fighting, weapons cueing, and networked sensors & fires
0:27:53 > Development & Operations Meshing with the Test Community: maximizing early operational test
0:36:24 > Risk & Reward of Rapid Software Updates in both peacetime & active environments
0:44:44 > Self-adaptive Software: trusting and testing artificial intelligence and machine learning
0:51:02 > Weapon Systems Compute: designing for continuous HW refresh