Federal News Network's DoD Modernization Exchange 2026

The Defense Department has made maintaining its competitive edge in an increasingly software-defined battlespace a central focus of its most recent transformation efforts. A major theme of this wide-ranging effort is to transform how it delivers software by modernizing its processes, empowering teams and fostering innovation throughout the lifecycle.

Federal News Network will devote March 24 and 25 to exploring the programs currently underway to achieve these transformation initiatives.

Our journalists will talk to DoD and industry leaders about how the department intends to:

• Accelerate capabilities in their cloud environments to take advantage of artificial intelligence; low-code, no-code development platforms; and secure data accessibility.
• Establish, staff and mature departmentwide and agency-specific software factories and use DevSecOps and agile pipeline approaches to development.
• Transform development processes to enable resiliency, security and speed to deliver capabilities.