U.S. Navy Black Pearl: Lessons in championing DevSecOps

This post details the U.S. Navy's Black Pearl initiative, which consolidates multiple software factories into a single managed DevSecOps cloud environment using the GitLab DevSecOps Platform. It highlights significant improvements in software factory setup time (from 6 months to 3-5 days), cost reduction (10x), enhanced security via Authorization to Operate (ATO), and faster talent onboarding (from 5 weeks to 1 day). The post emphasizes how GitLab provides a 'one-stop shop' for source code management, tasks, documentation, and security scanning, enabling mission owners to focus on CI/CD. Key aspects include establishing a strong development ecosystem, centralizing security and compliance, supporting rapid talent onboarding, and enabling flexibility and innovation through customizable pipelines and tooling.