U.S. Transportation Command Cultivates a Team Mindset An interview with Christopher Crist, Chief of DevOps, U.S. Transportation Command Unlike Platform One or the Software Factory, the DevSecOps program at U.S. Transportation Command is embedded in a unified, functional combatant command that provides support to the other 10 U.S. combatant commands, the military services, defense agencies and other government organizations. That means it serves many kinds of military organizations, providing strategic mobility capability through its own vast infrastructure of people, information systems, trucks, aircrafts, ships, trains and railcars. It also means the command may consider itself a transportation organization or a strategic logistics organization, but it doesn’t necessarily view software as an essential element of its mission in the way the services do, for instance. “We have thousands and thousands of IT employees, [in] 77 different programs,” Crist said. “Everything is siloed. So that means our primary purpose is to educate others, but that also means lots of collaboration all across the command.”
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