Published Work
Writing
Notes, memos, and papers on defense technology, software modernization, AI governance, and mission systems.
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All Writing
14 published items
The Next Software Bottleneck Is the Capacity to Absorb Change
DoWI 8430.01 is published. The next step is expanding the Department's capacity to verify, accept, field, and sustain accelerated software change.
The Agentic Information Enterprise: A DoW CIO Operating Concept for Governed Workforce Creation
A DoW CIO operating concept for assigning, supervising, assuring, measuring, and scaling governed non-person agent capacity across the DoD Information Enterprise.
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.
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.
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.
CVEAgentNet and the Next Control Plane for Vulnerability Management
A short note on agentic vulnerability collaboration, continuous assurance, and why the next frontier is connecting enriched security intelligence to bounded action and verification.
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.
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.
Don't Put Frontier AI Under ITAR: A Blunt Instrument for a Dual-Use Reality
A policy memo arguing against sweeping ITAR treatment for frontier AI and proposing a targeted control framework centered on dual-use export controls, defense-unique controls, and enforceable operational provenance.
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.
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.
Notes: Research that shaped ACP-RA (agent security, tool use, evaluation)
Reading notes on prompt injection, tool-use at scale, and execution-based evaluation that drove ACP-RA design choices (gateways, envelopes, evidence, anti-replay, and upgrade discipline).
From AI Force Multiplication to Force Creation
A white paper on agentic autonomy, trust scopes, and strategic imperatives for defense.
From PDFs to Pull Requests
Code-as-Policy: transforming Department of Defense policy workflows with DevSecOps, version control, and continuous verification.