{"id":28489,"date":"2018-09-24T15:20:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/09\/24\/to-attract-developers-navy-looks-to-highlight-its-cool-problems\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:27:19","slug":"to-attract-developers-navy-looks-to-highlight-its-cool-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2018\/09\/24\/to-attract-developers-navy-looks-to-highlight-its-cool-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"To attract developers, Navy looks to highlight its \u2018cool\u2019 problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the military to maintain its combat edge, the Department of Defense needs to move away from the hardware-centric, industrial age paradigm of years past and embrace frenzied software development, a Navy leader said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One way to solve that problem is HACKtheMACHINE, which aims to work with and introduce so-called non-traditional organizations to \u201ccool\u201d Navy problems in the hopes of inspiring talented developers to work with the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how [the United States] won World War II. We were able to out build everyone else in the world. That kind of carried the day to the end of the century until we got to this more software based combat capability,\u201d Rear Adm. Lorin Selby, chief engineer and deputy commander for ship design, integration and naval engineering at Naval Sea Systems Command, told C4ISRNET in an interview. \u201cI think we\u2019re in a new era, where really if you look at our weapon systems today, they\u2019re all software based.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selby spoke with C4ISRNET the morning before the fourth iteration of HACKtheMACHINE in Seattle from Sept. 21-23.<\/p>\n\n\n\t