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The best agile expertise in your organization isn't in a playbook. It's waiting to be uncovered in your people. CTG's Agile Center of Excellence started by asking practitioners one question: What do you need? Then we handed them the shovels. Six months in, here's what we uncovered.

Introduction Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a powerful framework for optimizing complex operational workflows in federal technology environments—particularly where agencies must balance competing priorities, adapt to changing conditions, and operate under strict resource and policy constraints. Unlike traditional rule-based systems, RL enables an agent to learn effective decision strategies through

Feature flags have become important tools for modern engineering teams, enabling safer deployments, controlled rollouts, and rapid experimentation. By decoupling code deployment from feature activation, teams can innovate faster while minimizing risks. We'll explore their benefits, implementation strategies, and critical lessons from real-world failures. Benefits of Feature Flags

Overview GitHub Actions is a native CI/CD solution within GitHub that enables teams to automate tasks within their software development lifecycle. Workflows can be triggered from GitHub events such as pushing to a branch or opening a pull request. It has quickly become the preferred CI/CD platform for

At DEFCON on August 11, Chief Digital and AI Officer for DoD Dr. Craig Martell spoke about large language models (LLMs) and their future use at the Department of Defense (DoD). In that talk he said the following about the need for accuracy:  “I need five nines [99.999% accuracy]

“This is great!  Will it be ready by the quarterly review in two months?,” my customer asked. “It’s going to be ready by Tuesday,” I thought.  But before saying anything, I took a pause.  I knew my customer, an SES member with over 30 years of experience, must know