The Defense Information Systems Agency’s Vulcan platform isn’t another software factory for the military services and defense agencies. Rather, DISA is providing an agile product planning tool using commercial software and lowering the barriers to entry for Department of Defense (DoD) customers to use these tools. Dave Lago, a product manager for DISA’s Hosting and Compute Center, said Vulcan, combined with other DISA services, can help DoD customers more easily modernize systems and applications. “Vulcan consists of DevSecOps tools, offered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) at DoD impact level five to support software development and automation projects across DISA,” Lago said on Ask the CIO . “As important as software modernization is for DoD and DevSecOps is, and we’ve been talking about this for seven or eight years, now, these tools still are not as widely available as we think they are across DoD. Case in point, take an agile planning tool, JIRA comes to mind. These are super mainstream in commercial industry. I’d guess, maybe 80% of commercial software projects are using some type of agile project planning tool. What’s that equivalent number in the Department of Defense? I don’t know, but I still see a lot of waterfall and […]
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