DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
“ It takes drive , expertise , know-how and relationships to make true difference happen and happen at the speed that ’ s relevant ”
PRESTON C . DUNLAP CHIEF ARCHITECT , DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
wither . You need to be able to explain to the stakeholders and the board of directors that it ’ s actually good to fail and learn from an experiment that costs a few dollars instead of waiting seven years and finding out something ’ s not working billions of dollars later .”
This DevOps approach is a holistic dream , and in many respects Dunlap – as chief architect officer – takes an overarching view of how both development and operations overlap . But his software is populated by data like the atoms making up the universe . Presiding over this strata of the technology is chief data officer Eileen Vidrine . Has data become more important to government work ?
PRESTON C . DUNLAP
TITLE : CHIEF ARCHITECT INDUSTRY : MILITARY LOCATION : UNITED STATES
Mr . Preston C . Dunlap is the Chief Architect of the Department of the Air Force . First to hold this position , Mr . Dunlap is charged with working across the Air and Space Force , and in partnership with the Department of the Navy and Army , to transform technology development and acquisition so the Air Force not only designs , develops , and buys the right mix of future capability but does so more rapidly and with the power of interoperability . Key family of systems initiatives include Multi-domain Operations , Advanced Battle Management System , and Next Generation Air Dominance .
Critical data Vidrine is unequivocal . “ The appreciation of , and value of data has grown exponentially , especially over the past year or so . Part of the culture change is not about how we operationalise data , but think about how our customers need to operationalise the data . When we look at areas like mission enablement all of thoee data sets are really critical to inform key mission areas . I like to say that the mission is the nucleus of the atom and all the spheres of that atom are the mission enablers , and we need
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