ATARC Federal IT Newscast

This episode of Tech Transforms features Dave Raley, Chief Digital Business Officer at Marine Corps Community Services, unpacking Operation Stormbreaker, the Marine Corps’ cloud-native software factory and platform as a service. He explains how it slashes deployment timelines from 18 months to about 15 minutes per build by combining shared infrastructure, DevSecOps pipelines, and continuous authorization, helping federal mission owners and vendors securely deliver new capabilities faster.

This episode features Brian Monheiser discussing the rapid growth of the geospatial ecosystem in St. Louis, catalyzed by NGA’s new facility and long-term investment in related tech sectors. He explores how local universities, K–12 programs, nonprofits, and economic development groups are aligning around workforce development to support geospatial, defense, and advanced manufacturing needs in the region.

In this episode of the Space and Defense Innovation Launchpad Podcast, host Brian Fox moderates a panel with John Dr. John Rhoads (Lockheed Martin Skunk Works), Dr. John Schmisseur (UTSI), and Dr. Jeff Komives (MTSI) on accelerating hypersonic capabilities for U.S. defense. They explore near-term wins and deeper challenges across affordability, scalable manufacturing, testing infrastructure, and supply chains, while emphasizing tight collaboration between government, industry, and academia and treating hypersonics as an attribute to be integrated broadly across future systems.

This episode of the Space and Defense Innovation Launchpad Podcast features Chris Crumbly, Director of the Institute of Digital Enterprise Advancement and its professional education arm, DigitalWERX, as well as an instructor at Calhoun Community College, exploring model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and its role in digital engineering and Industry 4.0. He traces MBSE’s early use at NASA, explains why adoption is now being driven more aggressively by the Department of Defense, and describes how IDEA, DigitalWERX, and partner schools are building programs to grow MBSE talent across industry, government, and transitioning service members.

This episode features a conversation with Ben Garcia of Weber State University’s MARS (Miller Advanced Research and Solutions Center) about how academia can more effectively support the aerospace and defense industry, particularly in high‑temperature composites and hypersonic materials. The discussion explores technology and manufacturing readiness, industry–university collaboration models, and how intellectual property, factory-like training environments, and digital manufacturing can accelerate innovation from lab concepts to fielded capabilities.