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The Air Force may be close."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Air Force will soon announce that the service can update an aircraft\u2019s software while in flight, the Air Force\u2019s chief software officer said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicolas Chaillan, the service\u2019s software czar, hinted at the announcement during a wide-ranging interview on a webcast hosted by C4ISRNET, but he declined to share which aircraft could handle the upgrade before the formal announcement is made. The update is part of a larger push by the Air Force to modernize its software practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Chaillan described the news as a \u201cgamechanger\u201d and offered insight into the challenges associated with updating software during flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to decouple the flight controls, the [open mission systems], all the air worthiness piece of the software from the rest of the mission [and] capability of [that] software so we can update those more frequently without disrupting or putting lives at risk when it comes to the flying piece of the jet or the system,\u201d Chaillan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A formal announcement could follow in coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force is embracing agile development and DevSecOps in several of its programs to accelerate development time and deploy tools faster. Critical to this effort has been two Air Force environments \u2014 Cloud One and Platform One. Platform One, which was recently deemed an enterprise solution by the Department of Defense, is a software development platform that hosts a broad range of DoD components, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2020\/09\/10\/how-does-the-pentagons-ai-center-plan-to-give-the-military-a-battlefield-advantage\/\" target=_blank>Joint Artificial Intelligence Center<\/a>. 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Both Cloud One and Platform One will be critical to the development of those systems. Cloud One, a multi-cloud environment with Microsoft and AWS, will also be looking to add new vendors \u201cdown the road,\u201d Chaillan said. The Air Force\u2019s decision to go the multi-award route over the single award structure like JEDI made sense because of the advancement of cloud technology taken by the Air Force, Chaillan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen JEDI started, it did make sense to have a single award because cloud is very hard and very complex and it did makes sense to start there. Would I do that now? Probably not. 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