Digital Frontlines w/Heath Dorn

On this episode of Digital Frontlines, Heath sits down with Fred Simon—co-founder of JFrog and co-creator of Artifactory, the DevOps backbone trusted by millions of developers worldwide—and Kelly Hartman, JFrog’s Senior VP of Partner Sales who leads the company’s government practice and previously served in the U.S. Air Force. We dig into the origins of Artifactory, securing the software supply ch...

Today on Digital Frontlines we’re joined by Colt Whittall, the first-ever Chief Experience Officer in the Department of the Air Force and a driving force behind digital transformation across the DoD. With a background as a VP in the private sector before stepping into government service as a Highly Qualified Expert, Colt has led groundbreaking efforts to improve user experience for more than 700,0...

Today on Digital Frontlines we welcome Jim Kirby, U.S Army space-operations veteran, former National Space Defense Center Mission Director, and wildfire-hardened Chief-of-Fire who now keeps satellites safe. Iraq Veteran with the 82nd Airborne Division leading recon teams in Bagdad. As chief of the J-32 Space Recon Division and co-founder of the Joint Commercial Operations cell, Jim fused warfighte...

Join us on Digital Frontlines as we sit down with Nathen Harvey, the Google Cloud Developer Relations engineer who leads the industry-defining DORA research program behind the Accelerate State of DevOps reports. Nathen unpacks the 2024 report’s biggest revelations from surprising trade-offs between AI-powered velocity and system stability and explains what they mean for high-consequence teams in d...

John Nicol brings four decades of Agile leadership, steering Fortune-10 innovators such as Google, Microsoft, Costco, PayPal, 3M, Comcast, and USAA and later mission-critical Department of Defense programs, through sweeping, enterprise-wide transformations that convert sluggish organizations into high-velocity delivery machines. Now Transformation Coach at Digital Transformations, he fuses commerc...

In this powerful episode of Digital Frontlines, UFC legend and U.S. Army 101st Airborne veteran Randy Couture shares how mental toughness, planning, and preparation shaped his success in the cage and in life. We explore his journey from soldier to champion, and how those lessons now fuel his mission to support veterans through the Extreme Couture GI Foundation. Randy opens up about the mental chal...

DevOps trailblazer Andrew Clay Shafer sits down with host Heath Dorn to recount the hallway-track moment that sparked the movement, and chart where platform engineering and AI agents are taking us next. Packed with first-hand stories, hard-won leadership lessons, and actionable guidance for leveling-up delivery pipelines, this episode is a must-listen for engineers, product leaders, and transforma...

Heath's Digital Transformations Book Club. He dives into his favorite books that he's been championing in the US Space Force from Technology to Leadership to China.

Heath Dorn provides an overview of the day in the life of a Agile Transformation. He dives into how to transforms a program in the US Goverment, impliments Agile Delivery with DevSecOps.

CTO of Digital Transformations, AI Engineer 

Author of "Hack your Burearcracy" and former CTO of the VA Get her book now at: https://www.amazon.com/Hack-Your-Bureaucracy-Things-Matter/dp/0306827751

Leading agile adoption for the DoD's Platform One https://www.linkedin.com/in/drake-garcia-a991291a9/

Bryan is USMC Colonel, commanding the Marine Corps Cyberspace Operations Group (MCCOG) secures, operates, and defends the Marine Corps Enterprise Network. https://www.mccog.marines.mil/About/Leaders/Biography/Article/3442373/commanding-officer/

Heath Dorn is a digital transformation leader with decades of experience turning around critical technology programs in both the commercial sector and the U.S. military. As the founder of Digital Frontlines, Heath has helped Fortune 500 companies and the U.S. Space Force accelerate delivery, cut through red tape, and bring mission-critical capabilities to the warfighter. His passion is rooted in s...

Welcome to Digital Frontlines - the podcast where digital transformation meets the grit and strategy of the U.S. Military. Join us as we explore the secrets of digital transformation, blending military leadership with commercial agility. Each episode features exclusive insights from thought leaders in Agile, DevOps, and more as we tackle the challenges of modernizing organizations through technolo...