Monthly meetings
January 2026 – “Ask the DoW CIO Anything”
Presenters
- Rob Vietmeyer, OSD DoW CIO, Chief Software Officer 2025, a Year in Review DoDI 8430, Accelerated Mission Software Development
- George Lamb, OSD DoW, Director, Information Network Capabilities
- Aravind Raman, cATO Champion DevSecOps, Agile System Engineering, and continuous Authorization to Operate (cATO)
- Joel Cassell, OSD DoW CIO, Deputy Director Information Network Capabilities & SAP IT The Future of Special Access Programs (SAP)
- Les Benito, OSD DoW CIO, Global Compute Lead Cloud, JWCC, FinOps
September 2025 - "A-10 Thunderbolt II Agile Software Development Story"
Introduction
- Sean Brady, OSD (A&S) Director, Software Acquisition & Cadre Deputy Director for Joint Interoperability
Presenters
- Ladd Spackman – Workload Team Leader – 309 SWEG
- David R. Webb – Process Analyst / Agile Coach – ASRC/NetCentric
August 2025 - "Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) - IT Lessons Learned – Path to Zero Trust"
- The Presenter has elected not to provide the slides and recording to our external audience.
- If you should have any questions contact osd.mc-alex.dod-cio.mbx.devsecops@mail.mil
July 2025 - "Ask the DoD CIO IE Leadership Anything"
Introduction
- George Lamb, OSD DoD CIO, Director, DoD Information Network Capabilities
Presenters
- Ana Kreiensieck, OSD DoD CIO, Software Modernization Lead
- Rob Vietmeyer, OSD DoD CIO, Chief Software Officer
June 2025 - "Software Modernization Implementation Plan Introduction"
Introduction
- Ana Kreiensieck, Software Modernization Lead, OSD DoD CIO
Presenters
- Goal 1: Accelerate the DoD Enterprise Cloud
- Task 1.2 Establish a FinOps Foundation for Smarter Use of Cloud
- Les Benito, DoD Cloud Lead, OSD DoD CIO
- Jonathan Tame, DoD Cloud Principal Advisor, OSD DoD CIO
- Task 1.2 Establish a FinOps Foundation for Smarter Use of Cloud
- Goal 2: Establish Department-wide Software Factory Ecosystem
- Dave Lago, DoD Olympus Product Manager, DISA J9 Hosting & Compute
- Task 2.3 Enable Software Interoperability through APIs
- Allan Dianic, Director Software Engineering, OSD OUSD (R&E)
- Tim Stark, Software Developer and Data Scientist, OSD OUSD (R&E)
- Task 2.6 Prepare Software Factories for AI and Software-Based Automation
- Trac Bannon, Senior Technical Advisor & Software Architect, DoD CIO
- Goal 3: Develop and Track Software Engineering Talent
- Subtask 3.8.1 Increase Department Participation Coding Software Engineering Work Roles and 3.8.2 Enter Software Engineering Work Roles in Personnel Systems of Record
- Robert Larino, Director for Policy and Workforce OSD OUSD (R&E)
- Tymese Bostick, OSD OUSD R&E
- Subtask 3.8.1 Increase Department Participation Coding Software Engineering Work Roles and 3.8.2 Enter Software Engineering Work Roles in Personnel Systems of Record
April 2025 - "Artificial Intelligence Sub-Path"
Opening Remarks
- Sean Brady, Office of the Secretary of Defense Deputy Director, Joint Interoperability and Senior Lead for Software Modernization, within the Directorate for Acquisition
Integration & Interoperability (AI2)
Presentation
- Eric Obergfell, MITRE, Systems Engineer, ODS A&S, USAFE A2
Open Discussion
- DevSecOps Community
March 2025 - "The "Share it" act"
Opening Remarks
- Rob Vietmeyer, DoD CIO Chief Software Officer
Presentation
- Dan Risacher, DoD CIO Developer Advocate
- Paul de Naray, DoD CIO Principal Engineer
Open Discussion
- Special Guests
February 2025 - "The State of the DevSecOps Report"
Introductions
- George Lamb, Director, Cloud & Software Modernization, DoD CIO Information Enterprise
- Brigid O’Hearn, Principal Engineer, Software Engineering Institute
- Nanette Brown, Senior of the Technical Staff, Software Engineering Institute
- Col Trauna “TJ” James, Military Deputy Director of the Software Directorate at the Air Force Sustainment Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Matt Lince, Chief Information Officer, USMEPCOM, Great Lakes, Illinois
January 2025 - "Application Programming Interface (API)"
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API Tech guidance updates – Allan Dianic, Director of Software Engineering for Systems Engineering and Architecture (SE&A), OUSD(R&E) and Tim Stark
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Hackathon planning - Tim Stark
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A&S presentation on acquisition guidance – Sean Brady, Senior Lead for Software Acquisition in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Enablers (OUSD(A&S)) and Shane Smith
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API test bed presentation - MITRE