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bravO, from Page 4 ______ from various Air Force weapons ships in response to Army Brig.
systems and we want to funda- Gen. Billy Mitchell’s claim that
Tree safeTy ration of Air Force, Navy, Army, activities from talk and imagine claim undermined the then-cur-
In an unprecedented collabo-
mentally shift Joint All Domain bombers sink battleships. This
and Department of Defense civil-
ians, along with an expected 10- exercises to development exercises rent investments and strategy of
on real weapons system data.”
the Navy and then-Department
plus industry companies, hack- Wagner, a former software of War.
ers — data scientists, product developer at Microsoft, coded a Project B was authorized by
managers and engineers — will sex trafficking disruption pro- SECWAR and SECNAV to dis-
rapidly prototype capabilities totype on a winning Microsoft prove and disgrace Mitchell by
of their choosing on Air Force hackathon team after just three demonstrating the insignificance
Weapons System data, with men- months working there. That ca- of airpower. Mitchell instead di-
torship from Air Force and DOD pability, now known as Freedom rected his bombers to destroy all
leaders. Signal, has since scaled to dozens the test ships, changing military
Unlike other DOD technical of police departments and non- strategy, defense resourcing for
environments, BRAVO will al- profit organizations around the aeronautics and aircraft carriers,
low hackers to bring open source United States. and ultimately the Department
or proprietary software into the “This is a beta test of a radi- of War by proving the need for
environment quickly, such as the cal military innovation model a separate Air Force military
JAIC’s Joint Common Founda- that will allow any capable DOD department.
tion development platform. This civilians or military members to Styled off Project B, BRAVO
allows for unprecedented soft- build and validate capability and hackathons are sponsored by
ware collaboration to be used on impact U.S. and foreign partner senior DOD leaders to provide
classified DOD data. national security after one week technical and cultural innova-
“I began planning this hack- of effort. Once we validate our tion environments that enable
athon with a peer, Jimmy Jones, model, we will scale this to 500- government and industry to test
this summer while still at DARPA plus inter-service, inter-agency, and validate bold ideas on real
before being hired by the U.S. Air foreign partner hackers,” Wagner DoD data. These events align un-
Force,” said Stuart Wagner, chief
NIST photograph by F. Webber said. der Air Force Chief of Staff Gen.
In 2017, NIST demonstrated how an overly dry Christmas digital transformation officer for The BRAVO hackathon series CQ. Brown, Jr.’s Sept. 17, 2021,
tree could be consumed by flames in less than a minute, the Department of the Air Force. is named from Project B, a 1921 memo requiring senior leaders
turning a lovely yuletide setting into a deadly menace. “We realized the extent of un- series of joint Army-Navy target to enable Airmen to experiment
derleveraged raw data available exercises conducted on surplus and innovate.

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