RAF bring in former DOD Digital Czar

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Will Roper is regarded as a visionary in digital circles, has done some great work for the DOD and now is being given a chance to look at the RAF. It will be interesting to see which direction FCAS takes with some digital expertise in the ranks. Interestingly, the USAF Chief Software Officer (Nicolas Chaillan) resigned a couple of weeks ago and left a withering letter in LinkedIn describing how the DOD's resistance to change and inability to fund the right projects had frustrated him beyond endurance.

WASHINGTON — During his time as the U.S. Air Force’s acquisition executive, Will Roper had no shortage of disruptive and boundary-pushingprojects, whether it was conceptualizing a “Digital Century Series” of rapidly produced fighters or developing an autonomous drone wingman known as “Skyborg.”

Now in civilian life, Roper will be sharing his big ideas on digital engineering, cloud computing, agile software and artificial intelligence with one of the U.S Air Force’s closest partners: the British Royal Air Force.

https://www.defensenews.com/digital-...uture-fighter/