Software patches from Army hackathon going straight to troops in CENTCOM

Operation Jailbreak: the Army’s massive push to hack its own systems and make them talk to each other

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Thick yellow cables descended from the ceiling, splintering into a network of cords and computers in an otherwise nondescript room where dozens of civilian data engineers clacked keyboards, slung technical parlance and tried to fix one of the Army’s most enduring problems.  Known as “Operation Jailbreak,” an initial swarm of engineers from roughly 20 defense companies descended on Fort Carson earlier this month with the…

Software patches from Army hackathon going straight to troops in CENTCOM

Engineers from top defense contractors have spent days behind their laptops at Fort Carson, Colo., coding up ways to enable weapons, sensors, and command-and-control systems developed independently to share information. Dubbed Project Jailbreak, the effort is part of the Army’s first hackathon to integrate its many proprietary software programs. Some of the fixes have already been pushed to deployed troops, according to the Army’s chief technolo…

Army sent jailbroken tech to Middle East as part of ongoing hackathon

The hackathon now allows the Army to take new systems and work them into command and control structures to sync up with radars and sensors, all of which have previously never communicated with each other, according to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.

Army’s R2I Requirement ‘Starts Today,’ Pushing Hackathon Updates To CENTCOM Over Next 30 Days

As the Army pursues its new effort to ensure weapon systems can be linked together into a common and control network regardless of manufacturer, the service’s top acquisition official said […]