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HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- Adapting to a changing work environment, the 309th Software Engineering Group, part of the Ogden Air Logistics Complex at Hill Air Force Base, have worked through many challenges associated with COVID-19, while continuing to provide mission support to the warfighter and maintain mission readiness.
“We have successfully used shift work and alternating schedules to minimize exposure risks while keeping the workload requirements moving forward,” said Enos Cummings, director of engineering for the 309th SWEG. “Teams have been successful in remaining productive teleworking while working closely with system program offices to coordinate these efforts.”
The 309th SWEG currently has nearly 1,800 team members, including a large cadre of engineers, computer scientists, cyber security experts, configuration management specialists, and support personnel, all working together to engineer organic software and hardware solutions for the warfighter.
“Software development efforts continue during this change, but we are working hard to ensure employee health and security requirements are given paramount consideration,” Cummings said. “On any given day, there are approximately 50% of our team members teleworking. We have found great success with our support teams (finance, acquisition, process, internal tools development, etc.) being able to complete their mission almost seamlessly.”
The unit consists of multiple squadrons, accomplishing a diverse workload:
516th Software Engineering Squadron, which focuses on automatic test equipment development and sustainment, as well as space systems;
517th Software Engineering Squadron, which focuses on command and control and space systems. They have a large 100-plus personnel geographically separated unit at Petersen AFB, Colorado. Organic software development efforts for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent are also located in this squadron;
518th Software Engineering Squadron, which focuses on developing operational flight programs, or OFPs, for fighter aircraft, adding capability and lethality;
519th Software Engineering Squadron, which focuses on developing Software Integration Laboratory environments that are required for OFP development and testing. Also develops simulators and mission planning software; and
520th Software Engineering Squadron, which focuses on common aircraft programming, space systems, and OFP development.
“Our primary customers are the system program offices for fighter aircraft, space systems, and missile systems who directly represent the warfighter,” Cummings said. “Many workloads in the software engineering group are also transitioning to agile software production methods, which require close collaboration between the developers and the customers to provide quick-turn requirement development and realization. This equates to a shortened schedule for delivery of incremental software to the warfighter.”
| Date Taken: | 05.29.2020 |
| Date Posted: | 05.29.2020 18:44 |
| Story ID: | 371105 |
| Location: | HILL AFB, UTAH, US |
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