Industry Exchange Programs and Cultural Transformation

1. Industry Exchange Programs and Cultural Transformation 08 October 2019 Roland Feghali Technical Director (PMW 750) 858.537.0656 roland.feghali@navy.mil DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A: Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited (27 SEPTEMBER 2019)

2. PEO C4I and PEO Space Systems Organizational Structure

3. Industry Exchange ProgramsGovernment to Industry (G2I) and Industry to Government (I2G) • Navy currently participating in three OSD programs: • Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) Fellows • Cyber and Information Technology Exchange Program (CITEP) • Public Private Talent Exchange (PPTE) Program • For the PPTE: • DoD is inviting companies to partner in the 2020 talent exchange • Midcareer private sector and government civilians. • Gain better understanding of each other's business operations and share innovative best practices. • Exchange Program Dates: January 2020 – June 2020 • POC: Ms. Aissa Tovar at ppte@hci.mil or call 703-805-5237 • URL: www.hci.mil/ppte.html Civilian participation is crucial

4. Tenets of successLearned from CITEP experience • The microservic-ing of Culture • Stable and enabling Environment • State-of-the-art dependable Technology-as-a-Product The customer experience is the ultimate metric

5. Culture • The 14 Leadership Principles provide the social contract that keeps over 680,000 employees from over many cultures and countries on the same drumbeat. • Team size, tools, processes geared towards maximizing productivity: • Onboard in four (4) hours • SW deployment within two (2) weeks • Unique Communication Style: • Conway’s Law • Written narratives vs. PowerPoint • Verbal communication is direct and crisp • Data is the backbone of every decision • Working backwards • Problem solving by elimination Narratives are succinct and words matter

6. Environment • Streamlined for minimum downtime and maximum productivity: • Daytime desk-side technical support • IT equipment vending machines • Global follow-you printing • Smart conference rooms • Whiteboards everywhere • Tools allow for distributed teams to collaborateseamlessly • “Forcing Functions”: guidelines, restrictions, or requirements that "force," or direct, desirable outcome without having to manage all the details of making it happen. • Ownership Basics are taken care of so that we can invent solutions

7. Technology-as-a-Service • Automate! Automate! Automate! • Extensive ecosystem of software development tools enables rapid development of new solutions. • Principle of “code re-use” is applied organization-wide: • Application Program interface (API) is law of the land. • Multiple layers of controls/guardrails exist for ensuring service continuity and customer support: • Controlled deployments • Peer code reviews • Iterative enhancements Snowball Edge (Tech-as-a-Service) 70% solution that works 100% of the time

8. What Does a Transformed Government Culture Look Like? • Workforce communications-skills • Conflict resolution techniques, efficient time management, succinct writing. • Workforce-wide technical skills • The Cloud environment is a warfare area, not a nice to have. • We are the best at it and can fight and win. • Tooling • The right tool for the right task in the right time. • Metrics • Customer metrics are the metrics that count. • Metric-based programmatic updates. • Contracts • Contract as a Service (KaaS)? Metrics-backed decision making

9. What Does a Transformed Government Culture Look Like? (cont.) • Funding • Services-centric structure that allows for the funding of services-based capabilities that serve the enterprise… provided as-a-service. • Unified warfighter-centric presence • Unifying PEO C4I to the user. Unified C4I global presence

10. How Can Industry Help? • Participate in the Exchange Programs: • SECDEF Fellowship • CITEP • PPTE • Automation: • Propose solutions for business processes not just tactical challenges. • Services-based solutions: • Bring your cloud expertise. • Where possible and where we boundaries can be pushed, bring an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)-agnostic solution • Educate us on things we have not thought of yet.