WASHINGTON - The Air Force will conduct the next “BRAVO” hackathon March 20-24 at Hurlburt Field, Fla. A hackathon is an innovation event employed by tech companies where teams develop prototypes in response to enterprise challenges associated with data. Any American citizen may apply here. Attendees are not required to hold a security clearance. However, certain spaces, cases and datasets may require a secret security clearance. Across previous hackathons, the service has "honed methods to build and fight with classified and protected data of increasingly larger size and varied origin,” said Stuart Wagner, chief digital transformation officer for the Air Force. In January 2022, the AF BRAVO 0, its first classified innovation hackathon at Nellis AFB, Nevada. BRAVO 1 Canary Release grew the effort in July 2022, the department's second hackathon was held simultaneously at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va.; Patrick Space Force Base, Fla.; and Eglin AFB, Fla., with about 300 hackers. The BRAVO hackathon series is named after “Project B,” a 1921 series of joint Army-Navy target exercises based on Army Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell’s then-controversial claim that bombers could sink battleships. (Air Force 02/24/23) Department of the Air Force to conduct hackathon > United States Space Force > News
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