Let’s Talk Agile Webinar: Using Agile To Protect Our Nation's Critical Assets

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Dial in (audio only) number:  1-571-403-9146, Phone Conference ID:  103 643 650# ​

Who Should Attend:  Government, Military, and Industry at all levels who want to learn about the tenets and principles of Agile and DevSecOps to promote change and collaboration within DoD programs and projects

Speaker: Mr. Jeffrey Smith

Description:  The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) continues to drive digital transformation of personnel vetting and industrial security missions through the use of the DoD Adaptive Acquisition Framework, industry best practices, and a tenacious focus on the digital foundations for cloud services and data management.  They have established an acquisition program focused on migrating mission and back-office systems to single DCSA Platform as a Service and enterprise data management capability that enables other software programs to focus on mission capabilities rather than the underpinning cloud and data configurations. Using an agile approach with regular capability releases, this program is expanding the service catalog by using Integrated Product Teams from mission and other acquisition program leaders to define and prioritize the requirements at an agency level and ensure architectures are aligned with DoD reference architectures.

Come join Mr. Jeffrey Smith to hear about their use of the Scaled Agile Framework for the development of National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) to manage, develop, and implement requirements using the scaled agile framework SAFe.  There will be a Q&A portion.

Biography: Jeff Smith is the Program Executive Officer (PEO) for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. In this role, he balances the risk, cost, schedule, performance, interoperability, sustainability, and affordability of a portfolio of acquisition programs and delivers an integrated suite of mission effective capability to users. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 2019. 

Prior to assuming the role of the PEO, Mr. Smith was the Executive Program Manager (EPM) for the National Background Investigation Service (NBIS). There, he was responsible for leading the effort to design, build, test, field, operate, maintain, and secure the federal-wide information technology (IT) service used to conduct suitability, security, and credentialing investigations for all federal civilians, military members, and government contractors.
  

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