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Marine Coder Innovation Challenge DVIDS Article

Marine Coder LCpl Crum with Gen Matos, CIO, USMC

Brig. Gen. Joseph Matos, Director, Information, Command, Control Communications and Computers (IC4) presents an award to members of the I MEF Coding Team as the victor of the inaugural Micro-Application Development Innovation Challenge at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., Aug. 27, 2021.

DVIDS just released an article highlighting the 20+ Active Duty Marine Coders that participated in the 2021 Micro-Application Innovation Challenge.

I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) Coding Team's readiness application was selected the winner of the inaugural Micro-Application Development Innovation Challenge formally announced via MARADMIN number 600/21, Oct. 19, 2021.

Marine Coder Innovation Challenge Winner

We are excited to announce that I MEF and their GCCS Reconciliation Tool (GROOT) is the winner of the 2021 Marine Coder Innovation Challenge!

The competition was tough and picking a winner was a very difficult for the voting panel. II MEF's Command Data Visualization Tool and III MEF's Marine Logistics Planning Tool (MLPT) put up a great fight. Checkout MARADMIN 600/21 for more details. GROOT is live and can be accessed via CAC at https://groot.apps.stg.mach9.usmc.mil/

Marine Coder Innovation Challenge Voting Panel Day

Today marks the completion of the 2021 Marine Coder Innovation Challenge! The three MEF teams will brief the enterprise voting panel this morning, and a challenge winner will be selected!

A huge thank you to all that supported the challenge throughout the 4 months, to include but not limited to: * DC I C4 for their sponsorship of the initiative

Marine Coder Innovation Challenge Proposal Selection

Four projects were selected for further development in the Marine Corps Business Operations Support Services (MCBOSS) accredited DevSecOps environment!

The selected proposals are: * I MEF: GCCS Reconciliation Tool * II MEF: Command Data Visualization Tool * III MEF: REDONKULATOR Logistics Planning Tool * MARFORRES: Predictive Maintenance Operations

Each MEF team will begin a 90 day development evolution where they will learn how to: * Plan and execute agile software development methodology * Achieve an Authority to Operate (ATO) through the Risk Management Framework (RMF) methodology * Use Git Flow and Trunk Based Development to effectively build and collaborate on a product as a team * Leverage a Platform as a Service (PaaS) to build containerized apps using a DevSecOps pipeline * Build a web hosted static site! * And much more!

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Marine Coder Innovation Challenge

Calling all MEFs...The time is now to bring together all your coding talent to create a micro-application in an accredited Marine Corps DevSecOps environment. See Software Innovation Challenge MARADMIN for details!

Situation: This MARADMIN serves as an announcement of the first micro- application development innovation challenge. IC4 requests each MEF to assemble, and authorize the duty efforts of,

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II MIG Marine Coders Cell Established!

The II MIG CO, Colonel Russell, signed the II MIG Marine Coder charter today effectively establishing the first Marine Coder Cell in the Fleet Marine Force.

Cells are a critical component to scaling the Marine Coder movement and connecting Marines in the fleet to tools, environments, training and resources championed by Marine Coders!

We look forward to working with the II MIG Marine Coder Cell to progress the maturity of software development capability for Marines. Thank you all the Marines and civilians at II MIG for all the work to make this a reality!

Last, we expect I MIG and III MIG to be fast followers!

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NDAA

Get paid for programming skills similar to foreign languages!

NDAA 2021 Section 241

Source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr6395/text

D: Education and Workforce Development

241.Measuring and incentivizing programming proficiency

(a) In general Not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall carry out the following activities:

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STICKERS!

We just received our first batch of Marine Coders stickers!