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Overmatch Software Armory: Overcoming Barriers to Deployment of Modern Naval C2 Software (059)

September 2024

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Amanda George

David Jenkins

Chris Johnson

Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

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Basic & Applied Research, Development, Engineering

Prototyping, Test & Evaluation, Installation, Sustainment

Drive Innovation and Create Decision Advantage

Integrated Across All Warfighting Domains

OUR MISSION

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Today

Tomorrow

Future

Networks

Automated Production, �Installation & In-Service Support

Marine Mammals

Predictive Maintenance

3D Scanning

Installation & Support

Engineering, Development, T&E

Science & Technology

Digital Transformation

C4ISR for Autonomous Vehicles

Cyber

Live Virtual� Constructive Simulations

Space Communications

Super Swarms

Laser Research

Material Science

Artificial Intelligence / �Machine Learning

Quantum

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Our Strategic Locations

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Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR)

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NAVWARSYSCOM� Space Field Activity

Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic

Naval Information Warfare �Center Pacific

�CAPT Patrick McKenna, CO

Michael McMillan, ED

RADM Seiko Okano, Commander

John Pope, Executive Director

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Innovating Software Development

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Real World Problem

  • Shipboard installations traditionally require a team of govt / contractor engineers to go aboard ship and spend weeks installing various mission software prior to deployment

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  • Updates or casualties require sending engineers onboard to mitigate or update systems regardless of geo-location

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How have we changed the paradigm?

Overmatch Software Armory (OSA) provides a robust DevSecOps software factory capable of delivering software to ashore and afloat units over the air.

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NIWC Pacific’s History of Software Innovation

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RITE

Manage, develop, test Navy owned source code

NRDE Cloud

Navy’s first Cloud development environment

CSA

C4ISR Software Development Pipeline to support agile DevSecOps

C2C24

Demo ability to develop and install software over the air on 2 ships

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2017

2018

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OSA

Mature DevSecOps Factory delivering software over the air to the Fleet

2019

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What is OSA? 

  • OSA ION (a.k.a FUSION) : Provides collaboration and workflow planning tools to program and project personnel to manage and monitor development efforts

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  • OSA Tools – (DEVSECOPS CI/CD): Provides robust development environment, provisioned with security tools and processes in place, with integration environments and repositories to support delivery of software to CANES and other environments as desired

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Current Environment

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What does OSA mean for software developers?

  • Agile project management
  • Access to the tools you need, whenever you need them
  • Flexibility to configure tools to match production environment
  • Test and integrate in a replica of the production environment
  • Rapid ATO

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100+

PROJECTS

3,500+

USERS

>1 HOUR

BUILD TIME

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What does OSA mean for the Fleet?

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Since January 2023…

… used by other Services and Allies

71

Installs

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Updates / Rollbacks

>1,400

Containers Deployed

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What does OSA mean for the Fleet?

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Since January 2023…

Reduction in install time

~14 Days down to ~2 Days

-86%

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Coming soon…

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Sailors installing applications – on their own – in less than 4 hours.

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Lessons Learned Creating the Stack

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LARGE upfront cost to create the stack

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Need a skilled team of engineers

Native cloud tools and services enable resiliency

Utilize enterprise licensing for cost savings

Annual maintenance is not trivial

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Ongoing Challenges

  • Ships still want engineers onboard
  • Bandwidth limitations
  • Software Factory consolidation
  • Transport

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Amanda George

Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

Amanda.j.george7.civ@us.navy.mil

(619) 553-2066

 

David Jenkins

Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

david.w.jenkins5.civ@us.navy.mil

(619) 553-9122

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Chris Johnson

Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

christopher.e.johnson40.civ@us.navy.mil

(619) 553-5097

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