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✨We are hiring! ✨ 🦄 Campaign Manager 🦄 Contracts Specialist 🦄 DevSecOps Engineer 🦄 Golang Engineer 🦄 Lead Product Designer 🦄 Platform Engineer 🦄 Air Force Business Development Lead Head to the link below for more info and to apply 🦄 https://lnkd.in/g8xRVj-x #jobs #hiring #golang #socialmedia #contracting #devsecops #productdesigner #platformengineer #businessdevelopment

One topic that unites industry partners and the United States Department of Defense - shared frustration with the #ATO process 🤯. Industry partners are trying to deploy the best software to the DoD quickly. Meanwhile, the DoD is waiting for up-to-date solutions to effectively execute the mission. But, there's hope! Here are some recent updates you should know about as the ATO discussion continues: ✨ Office of the DoD Chief Information Officer released the Resolving Risk Management Framework and Cybersecurity Reciprocity Issues memo. ✨ Defense Information Systems Agency has recently updated numerous Security Technical Implementation Guides and Security Requirements Guides to ensure they align with the latest standards set forth in the fifth revision of the NIST Special Publication 800-53. ✨  Defense Unicorns launched a workshop to address the DoD's various struggles related to software delivery, including the ATO and cATO processes.  #Cybersecurity #Defense

How much time do you waste manually validating the security of your system? Whether it’s mandatory or just good practice, validating your system security is valuable but can take time you don’t have. Lula is a completely open source tool designed to give you that time back and probably catch a few risks you missed too 😉 What you get when you use Lula: 🦉 Defense in Depth: detection of malicious or insecure configurations. 🦉 Continuous Risk Management: validate live system compliance against controls, benchmarks, industry standards and best practices. 🦉 OSCAL Native: Uses NIST OSCAL to map implementations to requirements from catalogs and produces an assessment results OSCAL file. No proprietary data format required. Go to https://lula.dev to learn more about the capabilities Lula can bring to you and your security.

Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸 "The essence of America—that which really unites us—is not ethnicity, or nationality, or religion. It is an idea—and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things." — Condoleezza Rice Let's celebrate the spirit of unity and the incredible potential that defines our nation. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to those who have served and continue to serve our country, safeguarding the #freedom we cherish. #FourthOfJuly #IndependenceDay

Here is your sneak peek (or peak 🗻 if we want to keep going with the iceberg analogy 🫠) into the exclusive workshop where we'll equip you with the knowledge to deliver modern capabilities for your mission! Submit for an invite by this Friday to take a deeper dive with 🦄s who can help navigate the intricacies of software delivery for the United States Department of Defense. 📅 Date: July 9th & 10th 📍 Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado Together, we will uncover hidden challenges and learn effective strategies to overcome obstacles facing your mission. Submit for an invite here: https://shorturl.at/j6BEf #DoD #SoftwareDelivery #networking #Innovation #DefenseTech

To paraphrase Prussian Field Marshall, Helmuth von Moltke, ‘no plan survives contact with the enemy.’ Now join me in the mental journey as I apply this to software delivery 🤔… Where you start is generally not where you want to end up, particularly in software development. Sometimes the intent will change, or the problem may shift before delivery, so the plan is always evolving. The development and deployment methodology of “waterfall” doesn’t take this evolution from plan to deployment into account, which is why 🦄s gravitate towards agile methodologies. Agile emphasizes adaptability and continuous improvement to build, test, and validate our ideas incrementally 🙌 In other words, Waterfalls can be dangerous. Just ask anyone who’s gone over one 😅. You can read more about our take on the Agile vs Waterfall debate here: https://shorturl.at/F0fUE

Are you still celebrating Zarf being accepted as a contribution to OpenSSF? We sure are! 🎉 Zarf empowers you to securely package apps and resources, ensuring you have everything necessary to run applications seamlessly in any environment, be it intermittent or fully disconnected. Is anyone else noticing a trend of the United States Department of Defense and its partners becoming significant contributors and consumers of Open-Source Software? We're thrilled to be able to take part in this transition and will continue to advocate for the DoD to utilize and contribute to the Open-Source Community! You can (and should 😉) read more about the Zarf contribution here: https://shorturl.at/SUEXQ #OpenSource #DevSecOps

Are you in the United States Department of Defense and struggling with software delivery? Let's workshop it! We have been in your shoes, and we want to help. Join Drew Belk 🦄, Victoria Wyler, Austen Bryan, Andrew Greene, Kyle Palko, and Phil Cole as they take on your challenges and work to help you walk away with actionable solutions to improve your mission capabilities, in the inaugural Defense Unicorns workshop! ➡ Where: Colorado Springs, Colorado ➡ When: July 9th & 10th Attendance is limited; apply for an invite here: https://shorturl.at/L6bRF Comment what you're hoping to get out of this workshop! #SoftwareDelivery #Innovation #BetterTogether

“The government now faces a ‘quiet crisis.’ The problem stems from two factors.” “One is an unprecedented exodus of high-caliber workers from federal service. The US is experiencing dif­ficulties retaining civilians in the face of fierce competition for talent.” “The second factor is government recruiting failure. In a stark reversal of historic norms, US agencies now find themselves unable to attract, or even interest, the most talented workers in the country.“ Those statements could have been written today, but they were actually taken from an Air Force Magazine article from July 1989 🤯 Fast forward to today, and it’s disheartening to see that we’re still grappling with the same challenges. Despite decades of awareness, the government remains unable to retain and recruit top talent effectively, and with many roles being open to internal talent only, it seems that they might not have learned from the lessons of the past. While the Department of Defense grapples with recruiting and retention strategies, we are witnessing the rise of contractors who are providing innovators a place to continue to serve the country, just with better pay and benefits, better tech and determination towards bringing velocity to the Warfighter. #defense #fightfortalent #talentshortage #retention #recruiting