It is time to say Goodbye!
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Abstraction: First US DoD Chief Software Officer resigns over bureaucratic failure to adopt DevSecOps
Key points:
- Nicolas Chaillan resigned as USAF/DoD Chief Software Officer in September 2021 after 3 years, citing leadership's failure to fund and mandate DevSecOps for new software starts
- Accomplishments: created Platform One (DoD's largest DevSecOps managed service), Iron Bank (800+ hardened containers), Cloud Native Access Point (Zero Trust for 1-4M users), and delivered over-the-air updates to U-2 jets in flight
- Joint Staff's JADC2 MVP project was terminated when leadership could not find $20M in FY22 funding despite declaring it a top priority — Chaillan's primary reason for departure
- Warned the US must beat China through agility and innovation, not population size; estimated 100,000+ software developers in DoD with "almost no shared repositories"
- Called DoD's failure to mandate DevSecOps "borderline criminal" and criticized placing non-technical officers in charge of ICAM, Zero Trust, and cloud infrastructure
Connections: Nicolas Chaillan · Us Air Force · Department Of Defense · Devsecops · Zero Trust · AI In Government
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-say-goodbye-nicolas-m-chaillan/