{
    "version" : "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1",
    "content" : "event",
    "type" : "single",
    "title" : "Air Force COOL and 18F: Partnership and Flight Operations Software Agile Lessons Learned |Digital.gov",
    "description": "Air Force COOL and 18F: Partnership and Flight Operations Software Agile Lessons Learned",
    "home_page_url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/","feed_url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/event/2020/06/23/air-force-cool-18f-partnership-flight/index.json","item" : [
    {"kicker" : "DevOps","title" :"Air Force COOL and 18F: Partnership and Flight Operations Software Agile Lessons Learned","deck" : "","summary" : "Highlights from the Air Force Materiel Command & 18F partnership and the importance of organizational structure, roles of the core team, and user outreach for military and government DevOps.","date" : "2020-06-23T14:00:00-05:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","start_date" : "2020-06-23T14:00:00-05:00","end_date" : "2020-06-23T14:30:00-05:00",
      "event_organizer" : "Digital.gov","host" : "DevOps Community of Practice","registration_url" : "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/109154700648","captions" : "https://www.captionedtext.com/client/event.aspx?EventID=4474360&CustomerID=321","youtube_id" : "CO8_MOTZJsU","authors" : {"major-taylor-m-wilson" : "Major Taylor M. Wilson"},"topics" : {
        
            "artificial-intelligence" : "Artificial intelligence",
            "mobile" : "Mobile",
            "product-and-project-management" : "Product and project management",
            "social-media" : "Social media",
            "software-engineering" : "Software engineering"
            },"content" :"\u003cp\u003eMajor Taylor Wilson served as the program manager and product owner for USAF Center Ops On-Line (COOL), the Air Force Materiel Command\u0026rsquo;s web-based flight operations software. This presentation serves as a quick look at the history and renewed maturity of the Department of Defense\u0026rsquo;s only government-owned flight operations software.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the help of 18F via their \u0026ldquo;Path Analysis\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;Experiment and Iterate\u0026rdquo; phases, COOL agile DevOps practices became less of a buzzword and more of a movement towards providing structure and value to the wide user base of the Air Force\u0026rsquo;s flight test enterprise.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"presenter\"\u003ePresenter:\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMajor Taylor M. Wilson\u003c/strong\u003e is the Mission Systems Chief and Instructor Test Pilot, United States Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards AFB, California. He directs the 150-hour academic and flying schedule for the $33 million US Air Force Test Pilot School Mission Systems curriculum. He is a dual-qualified fighter test pilot, leading $1 million weapon, structures, and functional test flights for unique $1.1 billion F-22A and F-16 test fleet. Prior to his current position, the major served as the acting Director of Operations and experimental test pilot for the 411th Flight Test Squadron as well as Program Manager of Air Force Materiel Command’s flight operations agile software development team.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis talk is hosted by the \u003ca href=\"https://digital.gov/communities/devops/\"\u003eDevOp Community\u003c/a\u003e and Digital.gov.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n",
      "branch" : "bc-archive-content-3",
      "filename" :"2020-06-23-air-force-cool-18f-partnership-flight.md",
      
      "filepath" :"events/2020/06/2020-06-23-air-force-cool-18f-partnership-flight.md",
      "filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/events/2020/06/2020-06-23-air-force-cool-18f-partnership-flight.md",
      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/events/2020/06/2020-06-23-air-force-cool-18f-partnership-flight.md","slug" : "air-force-cool-18f-partnership-flight","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/event/2020/06/23/air-force-cool-18f-partnership-flight/"
    }
  ]
}