'More than just a pathfinder': AOC team transitions to long-term planning

By Rachel Cohen / July 26, 2018 at 4:07 PM
Pivotal, the cloud platform provider and coding instructor for the Air Force's Air Operations Center pathfinder, is taking on a new challenge: determining how the service should manage its fledgling homegrown software-development enterprise. Last summer, the Air Force launched an agile development and operations effort to iteratively and quickly improve the AOC , after canceling its Increment 10.2 upgrade contract with Northrop Grumman. Because AOC coders are increasingly self-sufficient, creating five to 10 new capabilities per tool each week, Pivotal...

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