This is pretty hilarious. So some consultants swooped in, there was 8 weeks of training, and now everything is going to go back to how it was.<p>Source: seen more than one of these external “transformation” efforts.<p>“ Through an eight-week Red Hat Open Innovation Labs residency, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics replaced the waterfall development process it used for F-22 Raptor upgrades with an agile methodology and DevSecOps practices that are more adaptive to the needs of the U.S. Air Force.“
"The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is one of the world’s premier fighter jets, thanks to its unique combination of stealth, speed, agility, and situational awareness."<p>A huge understatement. It's the only true 5th gen that's tailored for performance, rather than cost savings (ala the F-35). The others are completely unproven (Chinese) or both unproven and in extremely limited quantities, while not providing true stealth (PAK FA, though if anything, the SU-35 family is the closer analogue).
I worked at Lockheed with Red Hat doing exactly what they are talking about here on the F-35. Unsurprisingly, It was a total disaster from the top down. I guarantee this will be as well. I was happy to get out after a year.
"By knocking down walls and creating open spaces to work in its new dojo, [...] team now has a dedicated space for continued learning, thinking and problem-solving [...]"<p>I imagine a couple of couches and a book shelf in a corner.
I'm a little bit surprised to see this.<p>One thing I've observed working on many different types of software projects is that there exists a continuum between waterfall and agile/scrum, and one way of thinking of it is what the length of the sprint is. Waterfall is a single sprint the length of the product, spiral development is several sprints over the length of the product, and agile/scrum is sprints of a couple of weeks to a month.<p>The length of the sprint is simply the length of the planning cycle. What I've observed is that systems with certain characteristics, such as safety critical systems or systems that involve hardware that doesn't yet exist or is expensive or time consuming to test typically don't work with an agile/scrum planning cycle. If you want to deliver them in a reasonable time, complex and parallel requirements mean that you must plan things far in advance so that everyone is ready at the same time.
Scrum has been a catastrophe to the software industry (argued elsewhere countless times) - I don't want to imagine the consequences it can have for jet figthers.<p>For such environments you definitely want to have no deadlines at all, to have a special focus on well-defined requirements, and in software quality.<p>That investment should be marginal compared to hardware costs.<p>And in fact, by going more slowly, you end up delivering faster after a couple years, when you enjoy zero tech debt and an excellent foundation.
So a government contractor subcontracts another government contractor's new acquisition to do some unnecessary, yet likely expensive, consulting work that has no net benefit to the project.<p>Nothing to see here folks, just the mold poking through the cracks of our public sector.
Omigosh! The F-22 was the example of avionics software that worked, standing in contrast to the F-35 (sometimes) flying tarpit of tens of millions of lines of C and C++. Does this mean the DoD is now acquiring assured and acceptable agile-accelerated advanced armed airborne Ada avionics assets?
During an "enablement session" really? This is a sales jargon AFAIK, the developer-unfriendly term for "hands-on training". Such jargon shouldn't be used in agile.
I work in embedded sw in the automotive world and I absolutely did not understand how container accelerates their development.<p>Could someone here with experience in this things enlighten me ? F22 raptor is still an embedded system, I cannot believe that it runs a linux with container. What I am missing to comprehend this article.
what the hell is DevSecOps?<p>I've been doing network security for twenty years, so I know what that is, this just sounds like some marketing and sales people started mashing buzzwords together.