The Incentive to Accelerate with Nicolas Chaillan, Former First U.S. Air Force and Space Force Chief Software Officer
Defense Mavericks
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The Importance of DAU in the Defense Acquisition University
The defense acquisition university is supposed to be training the next generation of program managers and material leaders. But most people just go through the waterfall nonsense, he says. "There's such a fear of failing that we actually end up failing even more" The department should focus on one accreditation for all commercial software instead of re-assessing it 20 million times every time an application is updated or new features are added. It could save millions in taxpayer dollars per project if they did this properly.
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