Air force selects microsoft software and services in. If your requirement dictates a near future purchase of oracle software technology dod esi recommends using esi terms and conditions as a best practice. Jun 06, 2019 the devsecops software platform being deployed by the dod enterprise devsecops enterprise initiative will enable software fixes in minutes and automate testing and security, among other capabilities, says nicolas chaillan, chief software officer, u. I n t e g r i t y s e r v i c e e x c e l l e n c e headquarters u. Af advance meter reading system given authority to operate. Air force accelerates cloud movement with oracle software licensing deal. Air force to launch enterprise microsoft initiative. He is also the colead for the department of defense enterprise devsecops initiative with the department of defense chief information officer. The seamls office will act as the primary interface with. Sonikube was challenged by nicolas chaillan, chief software officer for the air force and colead for the dod enterprise devsecops initiative, to install kubernetes on the legacy hardware in f16s. The dod enterprise software initiative esi is a contract mechanism that establishes and manages commercialofftheshelf cots information technology it agreements, assets, and policies for the purpose of lowering total cost of ownership across the dod, coast guard and intelligence communities. The air force has established the air force software enterprise acquisition management lifecycle support seamls office at the 754 elsg.
Maintenance, repair and overhaul initiative contract award. This initiative has been active since 1998, but continuously evolves and improves. Provide software enterprise services and facilitate the implementation and adoption of innovative software best practices, cybersecurity solutions, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies across af programs. Air force chief software officer bringing devsecops dodwide. An outline of acquisition information for upcoming business opportunities in bes for the next 18 months. One point for the team was to demonstrate that it could be done, chaillan said in his keynote presentation at kubecon 2019 in san diego. Jun 18, 2015 tyndall air force base, florida the air force civil engineer centers advanced meter reading system, or amrs, program was recently granted full authority to operate, officially launching an initiative to provide unprecedented energy saving opportunities to air force engineers, base energy managers and other decision makers. Each initiative contributes to one or more of the it enterprise goals. Air force expeditionary combat support system enterprise resource planning product and system integration efforts. Serve as air force focal point for software, cloud and cybersecurity related impediments and enablers. The dpi bpas provide network printers and multifunction devices that support the majority of air force black and white and color printing requirements at significantly reduced total cost of ownership tco. Adobe, cisco, and microsoft joint enterprise level agreement jelas. Jun 01, 2015 the joint enterprise license agreement jela provides a single microsoft technology contract to support u. Dod esi customers may now order azul software through the nasa sewp catalog.
The air force s transformation initiative creates a new, increased level of cooperation, accountability and savings between the air force and microsoft. Contracts for july 12, 2019 us department of defense. Air force has equipped air national guard f16s with northrop grummanbuilt radars in a move to address a homeland defense requirement. Provides cradletograve lifecycle support for microsoft software products and manages integration and application of microsoft services across the air force. Air force accelerates cloud movement with oracle software. We are enabling adoption of innovative software best practices, cyber security solutions, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies across af programs while removing impediments to devsecops and it innovation. Training options cloud oneplatform one timelines a digital workforce for a digital air force key devsecops ingredients infrastructure as code benefits what is gitops.
Dec 09, 2012 the software initiative, called the expeditionary combat support system, was supposed to manage logistics using software from oracle. Azul is the industrys first company dedicated to supporting an enterprise quality, commercialized version of openjdk across various operating systems, hypervisors and cloud platforms, provides alternatives to java by developing runtime platforms for executing java. Air force network integration center is currently celebrating 75 years of its vital role of providing communications, information technology, and cyberspace systems operations and sustainment for air force missions. The official website for air force netcents and sbeas.
According to fcw, shwedo said in february at an afcea event in arlington, va. The joint enterprise license agreement jela provides a single microsoft technology contract to support u. The department of defense enterprise software initiative was listed as one of the 10 most popular contracts by readers of washington technology, federal computer week fcw and government computer news. The air force oracle enterprise software license agreement esla was awarded 28 february 2017. The air force itcc portfolio includes the digital printing and imaging dpi suite of four blanket purchase agreements. According to donovan, the air force must control and manipulate massive volumes of information to outthink. Dod enterprise software initiative the dod enterprise software initiative esi is a contract mechanism that establishes and manages commercialofftheshelf cots information technology it agreements, assets, and policies for the purpose of lowering total cost of ownership across the dod, coast guard and intelligence communities. As outlined in a july white paper, the digital air force initiative encompasses comprehensive changes to how the force gathers, uses and shares data. The air force has signed a new deal to partner with private sector software and technology providers through a new enterprise software license agreement esla with oracle for software engineering and cloud services designed to streamline air force operations and. Def2019 dod enterprise devsecops initiative software. Chaillan is responsible for enabling air force programs in the transition to agile and devsecops to establish force wide devsecops capabilities and best. Air force stumbles over software modernization project.
The military is aggressively rolling out an advanced software development environment. It also provides the standardization that will give the service a greater ability to architect its enterprise using a more secure and consistent platform suite and eliminating inefficiencies. Tyndall air force base, florida the air force civil engineer centers advanced meter reading system, or amrs, program was recently granted full authority to operate, officially launching an initiative to provide unprecedented energy saving opportunities to air force engineers, base energy managers and other decision makers. We remain in discussions with oracle concerning the establishment of a future esi agreement for the dod. Colead for dod enterprise devsecops initiative with the dod chief information officer. Jan 28, 2019 the air force recently reached a major it milestone, migrating 555,000 email accounts in the continental u. Air force enterprise configuration management office. Mroi will also be the first erp system to leverage tools and services from the air forces newly designed common computing environment managed by aflcmchni.
The dod enterprise devsecops initiative is a dodwide team which provides. Defense departments devsecops initiative is on the move. Chaillan is responsible for enabling air force programs in the transition to agile and devsecops to establish forcewide devsecops capabilities and best practices, including continuous authority to operate processes and faster streamlined technology adoption. Steven wieland, chief of the strategy branch within the air. Software enterprise licenses if you are purchasing it software, you must use the following enterprise vehicles, if applicable. Defense dod enterprise software initiative esi blanket purchase. The dod enterprise devsecops initiative so far has 29 organizations working with it, including special operations command, transportation command, naval air systems command.
Chaillan chief software officer united states air force. Sep 16, 2019 dod esi oracle bpa pending september 4, 2019. Want to learn more about the dod enterprise devsecops initiative. Chaillan is codirector of an organization called the dod enterprise devsecops initiative. Its what organizations like the air forces kessel run. Azul now availiable through nasa sewp catalog april 15, 2020. The air force test center aftc, headquartered at edwards. The dod enterprise software initiative esi is a contract mechanism. The effort is focused on bringing automated software tools, services and standards to dod programs so that warfighters can create, deploy and operate software applications in a secure, flexible and interoperable manner, explained nicolas chaillan, chief software officer, u. Air force obtain an enterprise wide license for a core set of software products from oracle nyse. The air force flight test center was redesignated as the air force test center july, 2012, and is an essential cornerstone to the commands consolidation initiative from twelve centers to six.
Af customers should check the enterprise it initiatives section of the af portal to determine if there is an existing license or service agreement. Montgomery selected for new military software development. Air force colead, dod enterprise devsecops initiative v1. The air force is readying to roll out the beginning stages of a major cyber initiative in 2018 as it seeks to protect critical missions from cyber harm the socalled cyber squadron initiative will be moving beyond the pathfinder phase that spanned fiscal years 20162017 and into the enterprise roll out phase this year, lt. Air force decided to drop the hypersonic conventional strike weapon program and opted to advance work on the air launched rapid response weapon initiative amid budget pressures, defense news reported monday. Air force moves 555,000 users to office 365 cloud email. This contract is issued under the dod enterprise software initiative esi in accordance with the defense federal acquisition regulation supplement, section 208. Helps instantiate devsecops cicd pipelines software factories within days at various classification levels. Nov 05, 2019 the scope of this contract does not include those products that are mandated as part of the information technology commodity council itcc and the following enterprise agreements. Air force enterprise software licensing support dod enterprise software initiative esi. Fedscoop public sector innovation summit dod enterprise devsecops initiative nicolas chaillan, chief software officer, u. The devsecops software platform being deployed by the dod enterprise devsecops enterprise initiative will enable software fixes in minutes and automate testing and security, among other capabilities, says nicolas chaillan, chief software officer, u.
David goldfein speaks at air and space power conference 2019 in london. Why the air force put kubernetes in an f16 defense systems. Air force installs northrop radar tech on air national. This air force guide will help you determine which of the different idiqs andor. Enterprise software initiative included in list of 10 most popular contracts september 14, 2009. Air force business and enterprise systems bes directorate. Dod joint enterprise license agreement jela microsoft. According to donovan, the air force must control and manipulate massive volumes of information to outthink and outmaneuver its opponents. Azul is the industrys first company dedicated to supporting an enterprise quality, commercialized version of openjdk across various operating systems, hypervisors and cloud platforms, provides alternatives to java by developing runtime. Check out our public documents and the links to our dccscrdcar container repository watch our playlists, available at different expertise levels and continuously augmented. Navydlt solutions llc, herndon, virginia, is being awarded a multipleaward, firmfixedprice department of defense dod enterprise software initiative. Air force chief software officer, nicolas chaillan delivers a talk on how the dod enterprise devsecops initiative introduces the dodwide process to. The air force s aim was to create a single, unified logistics and supply chain management system that would allow it to track all of its physical assets and make efficiency savings. Oakland county michigan, nasa, railinc, travelers, u.
Dod enterprise software initiative esi microsoft enterprise license agreement. Nov 27, 2006 esi agreements are currently supporting major air force initiatives to include the oracle, microsoft and symantec enterprise software agreements, as well as the defense enterprise accounting management system and u. Secnav don cio navy pentagon washington, dc 20350. Chaillan is leading the mission to make the digital air force a reality by supporting our airmen with software enterprise capabilities.
Air force and disa it priorities, such as data center consolidation, collaboration, cyber security, mobility and cloud computing. Air force stumbles over software modernization project the. Products include software licenses, software maintenance support. Chaillan is responsible for enabling air force programs in the transition to agile and devsecops to establish forcewide devsecops capabilities and best practices, including continuous authority to operate cato processes and faster streamlined technology adoption. Donovan stresses digital air forces importance and. The air force in recent months has been sounding out notes about its willingness and need to outsource enterprise it. The afsc is comprised of nearly 43,000 total force airmen who deliver combat. Air force, colead of the dod enterprise devsecops initiative. The air force sustainment centers 448th supply chain management wing is spearheading an initiative to modernize supply chain planning capabilities that will directly impact supportability to warfighter support around the globe. The defense department is pursuing an aggressive software development program, called the dod enterprise devsecops initiative.
As part of its work on the defense departments enterprise devsecops initiative, the air force is increasingly deploying solutions like kubernetes, the opensource platform for managing containerized workloads and services, to deliver advanced capabilities to warfighters. Fedscoop public sector innovation summit dod enterprise. The dod enterprise software initiative esi is an official dod initiative. Air force information technology and netcentric acquisition guide. Air force, spacex test starlink smallsats to support c. The purpose of this web site is to facilitate effective information flow about the dod enterprise software initiative dod esi.
The us air forces expeditionary combat support system ecss. To address this situation, the dod is pursuing a new software development activity called the dod enterprise devsecops initiative. The air force has signed a new deal to partner with private sector software and technology providers through a new enterprise software license agreement esla with oracle for software engineering and cloud services designed to streamline air force operations and personnel services. Air force tomorrow plans to announce an enterprisewide microsoft software initiative that some analysts see as a prime example of how users can leverage their spending power to force. Office of the assistant secretary of the air force for space acquisition.
Scale agile framework in a devsecops context in compliance with the department of defenses enterprise devsecops initiative. Jun 06, 2017 the us air force launched its expeditionary combat support system programme in 2004. Select f16s at joint base andrews in maryland feature the anapg83 scalable agile beam radar system that the service branch procured to meet a joint emergent operational need identified by u. Air force starts new initiative to harness the power of. This webinar will present the vision for transforming dod software acquisition into secure, responsive software factories. This agreement will provide an unlimited license agreement for a core set of oracle technology products including a catalog that provides price holds with discounted pricing on technology products and consolidates esla for commercial proprietary maintenance support of oracle licenses in use. The air force software factory team merged top talent across u. May 22, 2019 the business and enterprise systems directorate based at maxwellgunter air force base was charged by the secretary of the air force for acquisition to standup an agile software factory focusing.
Mroi will be the first air force enterprise resource planning erp system to be developed in a production representative environment hosted by the defense information systems agency. Dod enterprise software initiative esi software license. Lockheeds work on air force arrw hypersonic weapons. Air force from various factories kessel run, spacecamp and up. Sitting down in the us capital of washington dc, nicolas m chaillan, chief software officer at the us air force and colead of the us department of defense dod enterprise devsecops initiative. The business and enterprise systems directorate based at maxwellgunter air force base was charged by the secretary of the air force for acquisition to standup an agile software. The software initiative, called the expeditionary combat support system, was supposed to manage logistics using software from oracle. The department of defense enterprise software initiative dod esi developed this saas toolkit to provide educational materials for the dod it acquisition and management community in an independent, unbiased manner. Existing enterprise license agreements elasjoint or dod elas. Air force bes units hic enterprise services division. Lockheed martin is working on the two hypersonic development programs under two contracts awarded in 2018. The effort is focused on bringing automated software tools, services and standards to dod programs so that warfighters can create.
Csc won the contract in 2006 as a task order under the enterprise software initiative blanket purchase agreement. Air force aims toward meeting a goal of issuing about a fifth of its contracts to small businesses, but its finding read more air force starts new initiative to harness the power of startup companies. Manages software factories for development teams so they can focus on building mission applications. Us airforce october 2019 by business chief usa issuu. Air force, scaled agile to find ways how to implement safe.
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