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Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115 aviation ordnance technicians load compatible software for a U. S. Air Force Guided Bomb Unit 38 to be employed on a U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet proof of concept mission at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, March 14, 2022. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Master Sgt. Christopher Parr)

Opinion: Defense software requires infrastructure too

Chris Lynch, founding director at Defense Digital Service, shares why it's important for the Department of Defense to invest in the infrastructure to power its software needs.
Defense Digital Service Director Chris Lynch speaks during an industry event in Arlington, Va. March 7, 2018. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom)

Chris Lynch departing Defense Digital Service

Lynch will be succeeded by Brett Goldstein, a Navy adviser whom acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan recruited to report directly to him.
Capt. Seth Hayden of the Army Cyber Protection Brigade monitors exercise progress in the white team operations area for exercise Operation Tiger Stance, at the Indiana National Guard’s Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Butlerville, Ind., Aug. 23, 2018. (Photo by Bill Roche)

Defense Digital Service, Army Cyber Command expand partnership with workspace ‘Tatooine’

Dubbed Tatooine, the new workspace located at the state-owned Georgia Cyber Center is the expansion of a pilot project launched last year to join DDS staff and…
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The Defense Department issued a custom “challenge coin” for one of the Hack the Pentagon pilot programs in 2016. (Defense Digital Service / Twitter)

DOD expands Hack the Pentagon program to cover hardware, systems

DOD tapped cybersecurity firms Synack, HackerOne and Bugcrowd to provide vetted hackers for continual assessments of defense websites, hardware and physical systems.
Defense Digital Service Director Chris Lynch speak during the JEDI Cloud Industry Day in Arlington, Va. March 7, 2018. The unclassified event outlined the Defense Dept.’s acquisition plans for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom)

Finally, a look inside DOD’s commercial cloud JEDI contract

At an industry day, Pentagon officials detailed their vision for the JEDI contract. "We want to bring this to the warfighter," one official said.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – NOVEMBER 29: Attendees walk through an expo hall during AWS re:Invent 2022, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas on November 29, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services)

Every modernization project is an opportunity to find allies, DDS officials say

There are two kinds of people in the government. Those who are resistant to change, and those who are ready for it.
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