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AIR FORCE TO BRING TOP-SECRET DATA INTO THE MIX IN NEXT WEAPONS SYSTEM HACKATHON
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AIR FORCE TO BRING TOP-SECRET DATA INTO THE MIX IN NEXT WEAPONS SYSTEM HACKATHON
The Chief Digital Transformation Officer for the Air Force and Space Force
Stuart Wagner, right, talks with members of Kessel Run at One Beacon, Boston,
Mass., June 22, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Richard Blumenstein)
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Written by Billy Mitchell
May 12, 2022 | FEDSCOOP
The Air Force this summer will host a second “hackathon” focused on enabling
coders to work with classified data in isolated, secured environments — but this
time, the service is looking to up the complexity.
The second run of the BRAVO hackathon will expand from including just
Secret-level operational data to integrating data at additional levels of
classification, like the Top Secret/Secure Compartmentalized Information level,
Stuart Wagner, the Air Force’s chief of digital transformation and an organizer
of the hackathon, told FedScoop on a recent episode of the Let’s Talk About IT
podcast.
“Our intention is to run our next hackathon at three classification levels,”
Wagner said. “And so we’re going to have multiple sets of data, perhaps tripling
our complexity, just on that side alone.”
During BRAVO 0, the initial hackathon in early 2022, the Air Force set out to
deliver prototypes of what Wagner calls “data-driven kill chains” — or using
telemetry to drive decisions and actions — for weapon systems.
Wagner has an end goal in mind.
“The final goal here is to effectively … take data off a weapons system, extract
signal from that weapon system using automated tools, produce new software or
configurations, which gets updated to those weapons systems … get those updates
of tactics to those who operate those weapons systems, and do it in a week,” he
said.
In doing so, he explained, the hackathon also challenged the Department of
Defense’s culture of siloing and hoarding data.
The hackathon produced 11 proofs of concept, many of which Wagner believes will
be adopted in some form across the military. One, he said, is already
operational in the “European theater.”
“I think we’re at the dawn of a new age in which our weapons systems must
automatically collect data, fuse and make sense of that data using algorithms
and human beings and data scientists that review that data. That then informs
the operation, calibration and future development of those weapons systems,”
said Wagner. “What I’m describing is an agile development process for weapons
system design, implementation, execution and operation.”
Some might call it “innovation theater,” Wagner said, but what’s at stake is
much greater than that.
“What I actually think these hackathons will do is build … iterative capability
to enable us to fight better so that if we get into a conflict with a nation
that has other values than ours, that has likely started a war with us, we can
adapt faster than them using data off our weapons systems,” he said. “And so
this hackathon, it might look like… innovation theater or you know, an
innovation event. No, no, no. This is a capability to go fast to develop weapons
systems faster during peacetime and unfortunately, if the time exists, wartime.”
During the next event, Wagner also wants to increase collaboration to more
effectively deliver those kill chains.
“In order to build that, you’re going to need to collaborate,” he said. “We’re
going to have to go from data off weapons systems to data scientists and the
simulation and modeling community, back to the development of software, and
ultimately putting that onto a weapon system. That is a nontrivial, complex
process involving multiple parties.”
That sort of collaboration will have to be done remotely, Wagner said, and
therefore the next hackathon will also have to integrate the cloud to support
personnel working at multiple military facilities.
More than likely there will be more work to come, said Wagner, who isn’t sure
he’ll meet his goal of creating these kill chains in a week during the next
hackathon. And while these first two events are limited to defense personnel, he
hinted that “ultimately we think there’s going to be a role to be had and played
by those even outside the Department of Defense.”
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Air Force, Classified, Department of Defense (DOD), hackathon, Stuart Wagner,
weapons systems
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