Agile at the Air Force

The Civil Engineer (CE) community within the U.S. Air Force uses three distinct systems in combination to manage information supporting the Civil Engineer Squadron (CES) and Joint/Department of State (DoS) Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) missions. These applications—known as the Automated Civil Engineer System (ACES) Family of Systems (FoS)—provide CE, Joint EOD forces and Security Forces (SF) units worldwide with information required to effectively manage resource allocations through work planning, scheduling, tracking, and execution required to support wartime and peacetime readiness, deployment, facility requirements/utilization, and major construction. With the award of the ACES FoS Information Technology Data Management and Programming Support Task Order in June, 2019, the Air Force engaged FTC and its partner Appddiction Studio to perform software development and tech refresh activities necessary to meet the ACES FoS requirements, while utilizing a DevSecOps mindset to transcend the status quo.

Six months later, with a new Agile framework driving cross- functional team delivery of software engineering, tech refresh, and surge scaling, the ACES FoS stakeholder community is flying high.