Lt. Gen. Dr. Ansgar Rieks and members of his staff toured Kessel Run’s facility in Boston, Sept. 8. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Detachment 12, also known as Kessel Run, is revolutionizing Air Force software acquisition and delivery, creating daily innovations...
Kessel Run, officially known as Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Detachment 12, is a software development and acquisition’s unit. The submission came from the All Domain Common Platform...
C2IMERA, which stands for Command and Control Incident Management Emergency Response Application, is being directed for use by all ACC installations, as a result of the application's successful implementation across more than 40 Air Force Installations.
The Web-based Information Dominant Warfare, or WIDOW, modern software application is designed to enable real-time and distributed contribution, coordination and visualization of planning details for Airmen, Guardians and joint partners.
The Defense Venture Fellowship is a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 3 program run by the San Francisco based company Shift and overseen by AFWERX. The Immersion Program is funded by the Department of Defense...
Kessel Run is the first software development unit within the DoD to implement Chaos Engineering, and are employing it as part of their day 2 operations. They stood up a team, Bowcaster, to implement those practices in 2019...
Lt. Gen. Christopher Weggeman, the Deputy Commander of (ACC) speaks with Kessel Run in an exclusive interview about: Digital enlightenment, distributed command and control, and why he is a champion for Kessel Run.
Stuart Wagner spent the day learning about Kessel Run at One Beacon, Boston, June 22. Wagner is Chief Digital Transformation Officer for the Air Force and Space Force. Wagner spent the day learning about how Kessel Run functions operationally...
Developer Spotlight article on the Head of Engineering, OpsC2, at Kessel Run, Sushil Kumar – who has spearheaded the development of KRADOS and has a history of running successful software engineering and development programs over the course of his more than three...
Lockheed Martin has begun an effort to help the U.S. Air Force’s Kessel Run organization transfer critical features of an old situational awareness system to a new cloud platform.
A Department of Defense software application was purchased by NATO and used to plan air-to-air refueling (AAR) operations during Ramstein Ambition 21, a two week exercise, recently.
The Air Force is now moving beyond theory, research and initial testing and will begin ready buying some of the technology that will make up the Advanced Battle Management System. “Nearly two years of rigorous development and experimentation...
Maj. Gen. Russ L. Mack sat down with Kessel Run to discuss distributed Command and Control, and the future of operations for the United States Air Force. Mack spent the day at Kessel Run receiving briefs...
The 609th Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, in early May became the Air Force’s first AOC to operationally use the Kessel Run All Domain Operations Suite to build an air tasking order. The new cloud-based system allows planners to build...
Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh speaks with Col. Brian Beachkofski while touring a Kessel Run facility on Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., May 13. Haugh visited Kessel Run to receive briefs about Kessel Run’s various applications and platforms. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Detachment 12...
The initiative is a part of a broader effort by the Air Force to share more of its successes and market the products and services available to airmen. The storefront will also share some of the internal technology the Air Force has built with its Platform One, Cloud One and Kessel Run teams.
Kessel Run, another Air Force software factory, recently announced its own command and control capability suite is coming online as it looks to phase out the legacy Theater Battle Management Core System.
DoD should scale its stable of software factories (such as the award-winning Kessel Run), which provide programs a common set of enterprise software platforms, services, and cybersecurity. These enable faster deliveries, increased interoperability...
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks signed a memorandum to transform the Defense Department into a data-centric organization with the goal, she said, of "improving warfighting performance and creating decision advantage at all echelons...
The KRADOS suite of applications, which was developed by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Detachment 12—also known as Kessel Run—is being implemented to phase out the legacy Theater Battle Management Core System...
During a quarterly senior leader review, Kessel Run and Air Combat Command leaders agreed the Air Operations Center Weapon System (AOC WS) program has met an important milestone on the path toward replacing its legacy command and control...
The Air Force Reserve and Kessel Run recently kicked-off a new software development program named Project SUPRA (Super UTAPS Product Replacement with AROWS). The purpose of Project SUPRA is to simplify and update the user interface....
Col. Brian Beachkofski, Commander of Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Detachment 12, (also known as Kessel Run) gives Dr. William Cohen, the Chief Technology Officer and Principal Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisitions, Logistics, and Technology, a tour of a Kessel Run
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – The Department of the Air Force -Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Accelerator is helping acquisition professionals better understand AI and how to incorporate it into Air Force programs.
In the halls of the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill, military, civilian, and congressional leaders regularly discuss the “readiness” of our armed forces. Department of Defense leadership, including service secretaries and service chiefs, testify annually to Congress about the readiness...
Air Force and industry leaders came together to discuss digital engineering and acquisition, the Advanced Battle Management System, improvements in cloud and edge computing, artificial intelligence, and other topics during virtual presentations March 23-25.
Defense and industry leaders discussed ways their organizations are using digital transformation to meet the Air Force Chief of Staff’s call to “Accelerate Change or Lose” during two days of virtual presentations March 17 and 18.
Admiral Charles “Chas” A. Richard receives a brief about Kessel Run’s various applications and platforms, during a tour of their headquarters in Boston, March 18, 2021. Richard is the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command.
"This is a no-fail mission for the Air Force with national security implications,” Allvin said. “If we don’t recruit, train, employ and retain Airmen with digital know-how and skillsets, we risk facing a reckoning of our own making.
This included the service's Kessel Run software incubator, which supplied a "Command and Control, Incident Management, and Emergency Response Application," and the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana...
U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa, in conjunction with the Department of the Air Force’s Chief Architect’s Office, conducted a Combined, Joint All-Domain Command and Control demonstration in international waters and airspace in and around the Baltic Sea.
Two sea power advocates in Congress are making the case to grow the Navy's budget, along with the Air Force and cyber capabilities, at the expense of the other services. (U.S. Navy via Huntington Ingalls Industries)
During his visit to Kessel Run’s facility in downtown Boston, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Charles Q. Brown discussed the future of software and artificial intelligence with Kessel Run in this exclusive interview.
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. - Hanscom officials held a number of ceremonies Feb. 1 to officially commission more than 25 personnel from the acquisition directorates here transferring from the Air Force to the U.S. Space Force.
The US Air Force agrees, and is allocating up to $100 million in a contract to database maker Kinetica over five years to overhaul and consolidate the data warehouses that underpin the management of its assets.
February is the celebration of African American history and the accomplishments of black people around the world. There are many female pioneers in African American history with various accomplishments that come to mind.