Ellen Lord, the Pentagon's acquisition chief, said today the Defense Department has restructured one of its most troubled programs into a new pathfinder effort for agile software development. As of April 1, the Air Force and contractor Raytheon have pivoted from a more static “waterfall” method of software development on the OCX program to a more agile framework. “So we are now coding every day and testing every night,” she told reporters at the Pentagon. “OCX is a program that...
