Army Acting CIO Gabe Chiulli teased Gatekeeper to automate intake, streamline requests and accelerate delivery of commercial tools.<\/p>\n
The Army is launching a new commercial-facing initiative to streamline how industry partners submit code and software products for military accreditation, said Army Acting CIO Gabe Chiulli Tuesday.<\/p>\n
What is dubbed \u201cProject Gatekeeper\u201d will deploy a tailored version of the Army\u2019s DevSecOps platform onto NIPRnet, using artificial intelligence to provide commercial developers with instant feedback and risk assessments. Chiulli said that the project will help remove acquisition friction.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe concept behind this is that we are going to work with industry similar to Operation Jailbreak, where we can have [industry partners] commit code containers, whatever might be in isolated areas, and allow us to give you that feedback,\u201d Chiulli said at the Carahsoft DevSecOps Conference in Reston, Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Chiulli added that the platform addresses a widespread operational bottleneck where individual vendor requests for sponsorship and accreditation frequently exceed the capacity of Army personnel. By allowing companies to upload code containers into isolated staging areas without requiring a Common Access Card,<\/a> he added, the platform offers a streamlined pipeline toward pipeline authorization and security approval.<\/p>\n \u201cEverybody comes to us and says, \u2018Gabe, I want sponsorship to get a FedRAMP,\u2019 or \u2018I want sponsorship to get inside the Army, and I want you to look at our product,’\u201d said Chiulli. \u201cWe just don\u2019t have enough people to derive every person\u2019s product and every capability to say, \u2018I\u2019ve got this built in. I can\u2019t pay for it all.’\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a mechanism to try and get us at least another step in the right direction to offering more products out much quicker,\u201d Chiulli added.<\/p>\n