Summary: The Department of Defense has traditionally procured large and complex systems that required years to develop and field. In today’s world, long development and deployment cycles are no longer adequate to meet emerging missions. The DOD is transitioning to commercial practices, and specifically DevOps, as a way to rapidly meet those needs.

Bio: Dan Williams is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Raytheon with 29 years of experience in the computer science field across DOD and NASA. Mr. Williams has been involved with Agile / Lean since the early 2000s and is a certified Scrum Master and instructor for various agile courses. He is currently working on deploying DevOps and scaled agile across Raytheon.