Joint Cloud Delivery Community: April 2025 - GSA-TTS/federal-platform-engineering-cop GitHub Wiki
March 2025: MCCS Cloud Enclave
Tuesday, April 8th, 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM ET
The MCCS GovCloud Enclave (MCE) accelerates the delivery of applications and services by adopting DevSecOps, cloud and container technologies, big data analytics, automation, orchestration, and leading network security approaches such as Zero Trust Architectures (ZTA). MCE is the Central Landing Zone for MCCS IT modernization effort with cloud-native operations and governance, enabling the modernization of MCCS SDLC, and supporting legacy workloads.
Speakers
Dave Raley is the CX Digital Director at Marine Corps Community Service (MCCS). MCCS mission within the Marine Corps is to provide services on Marine bases (childcare, lodging, food/beverage, movie theaters, sports fields, etc.) and operates the Marine Corps Exchanges. Over the last several years, Dave has led the MCCS organization in digital transformation and cloud journey. Dave’s focus has been on is removing the cost of delay focused on process improvements which he estimates saves roughly $100K/application/month in costs. He’s focused on two key areas – authorities to operate (ATO) and acquisition speed/agility. On ATO’s, Dave has led the accreditation of the Marine Corps first DevSecOps pipeline that grants an authority to operate by virtue of being promoted to production by the processes and tooling. MCCS is now taking IT and turning it into a profit center by offering other commands use of the pipeline for a fee.
Ryan Pratt is cofounder and CEO of Raven Solutions. Founded in 2005, Raven Solutions is a small business, specializing in cloud architecture and management, Cybersecurity, mobile application development and the design, development and deployment of business and government software applications. A team of innovative thinkers, Raven Solutions has unparalleled expertise and experience in creating cost effective, customer-focused, public, and private cloud services, hybrid solutions, and secure cloud infrastructures.
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