Writing
- note Digital Engineering Is Not a Department
Digital engineering creates value when digital threads, authoritative evidence, software delivery, acquisition choices, and operational feedback change mission decisions.
- note The Missing Operating System for Defense Growth
A model for connecting mission sensing, program immersion, solution shaping, capture, transition, delivery evidence, learning, and portfolio scale.
- note Technology Insertion Is a Management System, Not a Demo Day
An argument for treating technology insertion as a governed transition system with mission ownership, evidence, acquisition paths, integration constraints, feedback, and scale or stop decisions.
- memo The Next AI Bottleneck Is Delegated Authority
NIST is starting to standardize it. DARPA is starting to research it. Defense acquisition is starting to buy for it. The missing layer is the control plane.
- paper Continuous Assurance Fabric Reference Architecture (CAF-RA)
A reference architecture for governed, scalable continuous assurance at mission tempo, with policy-governed swarm adjudication, replayable evidence, and enforced remediation closure.
- memo Stand Up Delegated Autonomy Directorate (DAD) as a Joint Control Plane Authority
Decision memo recommending immediate standup of a Delegated Autonomy Directorate (DAD) as a joint authority to accelerate trusted delegated autonomy at mission tempo.
- paper Agent Control Plane Reference Architecture (ACP-RA)
A reference architecture for governed, scalable agentic autonomy—single agents and swarms—aligned to DoD CIO patterns (Zero Trust, ICAM, CNAP, DevSecOps, cATO) and designed for contested/degraded operations.
- paper From PDFs to Pull Requests
Code-as-Policy: transforming Department of Defense policy workflows with DevSecOps, version control, and continuous verification.