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Through our partnership with BESPIN, Skylight is helping the WARPspeed Program within the Air Force Weather Systems Program Office (WxPO) design and build a next-generation cloud-hosted weather tool called the BIFRÖST Portal. This cutting-edge application aims to serve as the ultimate hub for Air Force Weather and its partners, providing a single source of trusted environmental data, products, services, and tools. As part of that work, Skylight’s Jennifer Herzberg joined WxPO in Fairbanks, Alaska for the 2024 Arctic Weather Workshop, hosted by the UAF Geophysical Institute. At AWW24, representatives from tactical, operational, and strategic weather forecasting organizations gathered to identify gaps in Arctic-specific data and knowledge, and to propose collaborative solutions in response to DoD and other NATO nations’ Arctic Strategies. During a panel discussion, WxPO team members answered attendees’ questions about the program’s goals, timelines, and processes. Jennifer came home with valuable insights about the unique requirements and challenges that the METOC and DoD communities face when operating at northern latitudes. Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Burke of the Army's 11th Airborne Division at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage said that it’s crucial that the military knows when, where, and how to operate in the Arctic: “We must know the impact of the weather on our equipment and on our people,” he said. “This knowledge derives from accurate forecasting and our ability to do so.” “Our success is predicated on our ability to know this environment and to know how to fight and win within this environment,” Burke said. “And we owe it to our soldiers, to our sailors, to our airmen, to our National Guardsmen to get this right.” Follow along as we continue our collaboration with WxPO to revolutionize weather tools and empower the dedicated individuals who ensure the safety and efficiency of our military operations. #CivicTech #DefTech #AFWeather

Skylight and our Defense Services team, Taylor Graue and Nicole Campbell, are gearing up for SOF Week 2024! If you're attending and want to connect, drop us a line at defense@skylight.digital or feel free to reach out here. We’re looking forward to productive discussions and collaborations! #SOFWeek #DefenseTech

As part of BESPIN's new partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support their data modernization goals, we're happy to announce that we've been awarded a SBIR Phase III contract to explore ways to automate manual data tasks in the public health space using artificial intelligence, including robotic process automation. We look forward to working with BESPIN to advance the CDC's progress toward its public health data milestones through the innovative and practical application of AI. #PublicHealth #DigitalTransformation #DataModernization #AI #CDC #BESPIN

What an incredible honor for Skylight to be among those selected for a #STRATFI contract award by AFWERX, which was announced at SXSW last Friday. We look forward to working with our sponsor, BESPIN, to accelerate the United States Air Force's — and the broader federal community's — human-centered-design transformation as a result of this initiative. A major component of this effort will focus on empowering product teams with the tools they need to design high-impact tech solutions using AI. We can't wait to get started! #AFWERX #SpaceWERX #SXSW2024 #AFVentures #Prime #Spark #DAF #USAF #AirForce #BetterUserExperiences #ServiceDesign #DigitalTransformation #SoftwareFactory #BESPIN #DigitalAF #AgileAF #AI #AIDesign

🚨 Hiring alert! 🚨 Skylight’s looking for great people to join our talented and growing team of public interest technologists. We have a number of exciting openings for product managers, researchers, designers, engineers, and more: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d5ganyQ From modernizing the nation’s public health infrastructure to scaling digital transformation across the U.S. Air Force, there are so many ways to make a public impact with us. #hiring #career #CivicTech #GovTech

Exciting times at Skylight! Over the past several months, we've been hard at work to scale our public impact! Toward that end, we're happy to share some new and exciting developments: (1) On September 21, the ceiling on our single-award SBIR Phase III IDIQ with BESPIN was raised to $100M. This modification is an exciting reflection of the growing demand for BESPIN's Design Studio services throughout the U.S. Air Force and the broader Defense community. (2) On September 26, we were awarded a 2-year, $5.2M contract by the CDC under their PRIME/DMI BPA to support the development of EpiSync. EpiSync is intended to further the CDC's Public Health Data Strategy by mitigating, improving, or eliminating slow steps in the nationally notifiable case data flow between state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments and CDC, while also improving data quality and completeness. (3) On September 29, we were part of the Booz Allen team to receive a 9-year, $1.7B single-award IDIQ to support the CDC's Data Modernization Accelerator (DMAC) program. This vehicle will play an essential role in advancing the CDC's goal of providing better, faster, actionable insights for decision-making at all levels of public health. More news to come shortly?

Skylight's Jennifer Herzberg recently joined our clients from the Air Force Weather Program Office (WxPO) for a site visit to Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, as part of the WARPspeed Program. The WARPspeed Program within WxPO is developing a next-generation cloud-hosted weather tool called the BIFRÖST Portal. This cutting-edge application aims to serve as the ultimate hub for Air Force Weather and its partners, providing a single source of trusted environmental data, products, services, and tools. 🌩️💨 During the onsite, Jennifer met with members of the 25 OWS, 214 OSS/OSW, and 355 OSS/OSW to get feedback from Operational Weather Squadron and Weather Flight users on upcoming designs & capabilities and to identify additional user requirements for the BIFRÖST Portal. In particular, Jennifer received valuable feedback about the forthcoming Mission Management capability by shadowing and interviewing an OWS forecaster and discussing pain points and needs with a pilot. Follow along as we continue our collaboration with WxPO to revolutionize weather tools and empower the dedicated individuals who ensure the safety and efficiency of our military operations. #CivicTech #DefTech #AFWeather

We’re continually amazed at the caliber of digital talent coming out of the U.S. Air Force. BESPIN alum, Ian Hancock, is no exception, and we couldn’t be happier that he’s joining forces with us to build better public services.

Our government clients need — and deserve — the highest quality software solutions, so we’re always looking to bring on skilled software engineers like Boban Ljuljdjurovic.

After a stint as a Civic Innovation Corps Fellow, our newest software engineer apprentice, Angela The, will be a huge help in improving some of Skylight’s internal tools. Great to have you on board!