Software Engineering Institute

One was to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, which we were the first nonprofit in the U.S. to accomplish that.

And the second was adopting a model based out of the Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute called CMMI, the Capability Maturity Model Integrated, which is a Software development, software engineering best practice model really focuses on the process and measures and metrics that you get better and you reduce your issues and defects along that journey.

So we implemented and achieved the level two certification back then.

And again, that was sort of my transition into IT and I've had many different opportunities and roles since then, including CTO the last 12 years.

The core organizing team had more than 20 people across event co-founders, moderators, hackathon judges, ushers, and marketers, and they worked quickly and unselfishly through the buildup and especially on the day of.

The team brought experience from organizations including Anaconda, Matochik Group, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, Textron Group, ACI Worldwide, and Community Hackathons, produced by Crowdbyte Solutions.

This was a community event, so all of it fell outside everyone's day job.

Nobody was paid to make all day AI happen, and the fact that it happened anyway is a credit to how much the team believed in the project.

There are more cybersecurity challenges than any organization can realistically pursue at once.

A new framework from the Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute identifies seven areas that its researchers believe warrant sustained attention because of their potential impact on future national security missions.

Greg Touhill, Director of the Institute's CERT Division, is here to explain how that framework can help leaders decide where to place their time, attention, and research dollars.

Greg, it is great to have you on the Federal Drive.

When it comes to cyber operations, we want to use modeling and simulation to help our cyber operators cut through the fog of cyber war.

Those are the seven that we've taken a look at as foundational and important regardless of the technologies that are coming.

Greg Touhill is the Director of CERT Division at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute.

Greg, that last point that you made raised the issue of mission accomplishment.

System of systems work is complicated and it's all about people.

So with all of your experience with Xerox and after that, you moved to the software engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon university.

What did all of your experience teach you about the idea that the way an organization works can be engineered and improve?

Good question.

And that led me to getting to work on how do you change the game of this.

So it led me to learn a lot about leadership.

And the work I did led me to working with the Software Engineering Institute, which led me to be able to get a job there, which was really quite an honor because the Software Engineering Institute, the SCI is the think tank of the world for software and systems engineering.

And really, I got to work with the giants in the game and started my work with organizations around the world, which led to my own business eventually.

Carnegie Mellon, right down the street from Pitt, reported more than $505 million, including more than $226 million in computer science research alone.

And don't forget about the Software Engineering Institute.

They added, you know, about $147 million to that number as well too.

That is a serious innovation engine sitting right underneath Pittsburgh's economy.