Technology – Exocubic

Enterprise Architecture for the World’s Largest Aviation Fleet

I recently had the privilege of publishing an article on the Architecture & Governance magazine for our work in Army PEO Aviation. Read it here:https://www.architectureandgovernance.com/elevating-ea/enterprise-architecture-for-the-worlds-largest-aviation-fleet/

The Whole Team Owns The Whole Product

This is a story about a software team. I feel like it applies to many teams, since I have adapted the principle to other startup concepts, beyond software startups to include church planting and the coffee industry. Nonetheless, it began for me with software teamwork. It has, over time and application to much broader domains,…

A Holistic Approach to Open Systems Architecture for Army Aviation

Preamble: I had the privilege to present in Philadelphia for the 75th anniversary of the Vertical Flight Society (VFS). Unfortunately, I cannot share this paper on my site because it is part of the proceedings of the VFS, however, below is the link to the technical paper itself on the Forum75 website. Note that I…

MIT Entrepreneur Bootcamp!

I just started an MIT Entrepreneur Bootcamp! It’s been great so far and I like being in the distributed collaborative environment. It’s funny, really, I have been involved with several startups, was in an incubator for a while (more about that later, perhaps), and even helped establish an Innovation Challenge project for the Army Virtual…

Leveraging Open Architecture in Future Vertical Lift

I recently had the opportunity to co-author a paper on Open Architecture initiatives. One comment that my co-author, Matt, and I have discussed at length includes our closing line from the executive summary: Lessons are not truly learned until they are acted upon. I hope to write more about that in the abstract sense at…

Executable Standards Keynote Presentation

For much of my career, I have worked on things I can’t really talk about. Recently, however, I have been involved with the development of the Future Airborne Capabilities Environment (FACE), an open standard in the avionics industry specifically adopted and supported by the Army program I support, Future Vertical Lift. One aspect of this…