Blog: The Slant

Stop buying headcount and start delivering outcomes. Learn how the Rise8 AFWERX SDO IDIQ provides balanced product teams to shift your mission from staff augmentation to true product-centricity.

At Spacepower 2025, senior leaders from government and industry gathered for a crucial conversation: How do we deliver space capabilities fast enough to ensure U.S. dominance in orbit—before adversaries disrupt, deny, or degrade our advantage?

Stop choosing between security and speed. Learn how the Rise8 SDO IDIQ enables rapid cATO achievement and compliant DevSecOps for mission-critical software.

Discover why static software is the new battlefield liability. Bryon Kroger's latest white paper, The Unfinished Weapon, reveals how continuous delivery, mission-integrated teams, and outcome ownership are reshaping software as a warfighting advantage. Let me know if you want an even shorter version for social previews or ads.

Discover the accelerated pathway to rapid software delivery using 15 U.S.C. § 638(r)(4). Our handbook details the 9-step ordering sequence to move from requirements definition to award contract at wartime speed.

Bryon Kroger, CEO of Rise8, shares how to hack bureaucracy, ship outcomes, and build high-impact software for government missions at startup speed.

Rise8 closed 2025 with record momentum, securing major DoD and federal contracts, scaling leadership, and delivering production-ready software that advanced mission outcomes across defense and federal agencies.

The U.S. Tech Force is a promising step. But success takes more than talent—it takes alignment across people, process, and technology to ship real outcomes.