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The Warfighter's Edge (WEdge) Team

The WEdge Team is dedicated to developing software applications, or supporting those who do, that improve mission effectiveness and daily operations of the warfighter. We seek intelligent, simple solutions to warfighter needs. Our vision of simplicity comes from the ease of adaptation by warfighters. We extend this vision to the total requirements for warfighter adaptation. For example, we seek to nearly-zeroize training required to be able to leverage our software solutions.

WEdge is led by the very warfighter's who use our software. Team leadership, adaptation of new ideas (requirements), user support, usability testing and development approval are all performed by current USAF warfighters. Notably, the WEdge Operations Team is tasked with creating or maintaining the direct relationships with users throughout the USAF mission to ensure that all players have input to how our software is developed. We aggressively seek a good debrief of our work. The best influences on our software have come from the toughest critic: USAF aircrew.

Our software development process has been built to meet the needs of external organizations seeking a USAF software development team. We own the capabilities of the entire software development process from cradle-to-grave and staff the resources necessary to run nearly autonomous within the DoD software acquisitions process. Markedly, the WEdge Team has begun the process of certifying 50% of our developers as Certified Ethical Hackers. We work hard to build secure software, not software that rel on the security of the system our software is employed within.

You will find a copy of our software development process at: http://wedge.hpc.mil/WEdgeScrum_Process.pdf

History of the Warfighter's Edge Team

The WEdge Team was founded by Lt Col Andy "Skipper" Berry in 2005 along with Lt Col Mike "Buckwheat" Lattanzi. Skipper was an F-16 pilot and the System Support Representative in the Oklahoma Air National Guard when he started working with a legacy product called Briefing Room Interactive (BRI). Skipper leveraged his Computer Science degree and warfighter passion to successfully connect Microsoft PowerPoint to an outside data source.

A successful demonstration of this capability at Joint Forces Experiment 2005 led to an assignment at the United States Air Force Academy's Institute for Information Technology Applications (IITA), led by Gen (ret) James P. McCarthy. There, Skipper took the BRI concept and began to grow functionality into the fully released WEBS application available today.

WEdge Briefing Software (WEBS)
WEdge Viewer
WEdge Shuttle

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James P. McCarthy

General, United States Air Force, Retired
ARDI Professor of National Security
Department of Political Science
Director of the Institute for Information Technology Applications
US Air Force Academy