Productionizing Data Science at Sea Capabilities

Abstract

Delivering software capabilities to the operators has never been more challenging, nor has there ever been as much infrastructure and tooling to achieve this objective. This paper outlines an effort to take Fleet-developed operational prototypes and rapidly productionize the capabilities to scale out to afloat and ashore units. The Data Science at Sea initiative is a Fleet effort whereby operators and analysts develop capabilities that are required for recurring operations. The Data Science at Sea Software Factory seeks to establish developer guidelines and a software engineering environment that enable uniformed developers to develop more mature prototypes that can be rapidly containerized, ensure cyber compliance, and provide availability for deployment to any Naval unit that desires the Fleet-developed capability. The Data Science at Sea initiative requires sustainment to provide continued prototyping and production support to proliferate and scale applications to the broader Naval warfighting community.