Bryon Kroger is a former military intelligencer officer and the founder of Rise8.
The day he separated from the Air Force, Kroger opened the doors of Rise8: a digital services company that goes beyond consulting. Combining the culture and practice of Silicon Valley with deep-running expertise in working with the DoD, Rise8 leverages this unique synergy to continue the mission of changing how the government operates, enabling soldiers and airmen to obtain the technology needed to secure the homeland and defeat adversaries.
Rise8 is a full-stack digital transformation firm believing in a tomorrow where fewer bad things happen because of bad software. Combining the culture and practice of Silicon Valley with deep-running expertise in working with the Department of Defense, Rise8 leverages this unique synergy to continue the mission of changing how the government operates, enabling soldiers and airmen to obtain the technology needed to secure the homeland and defeat adversaries. Rise8 transforms the way their customers build, deploy, and use software by implementing a full range of services that create immediate and continuous impact. Their 3 part approach acts as a journey they take together to make a positive change to not only client’s software and systems, but also to their business.
After years serving in the US Air Force as an intelligence officer, Bryon Kroger noticed a major infrastructure problem across the entire Department of Defense: bad software. Instead of having the most advanced, cutting-edge technology
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Welcome to another episode of the Action and Ambition Podcast! Joining us today is Bryon Kroger, an Intelligence Officer turned software company founder. He served as COO for Project Kessel Run at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. Having been on the receiving end of poor software from the DoD for seven years, Bryon has a deep appreciation for just how steep the cost of delay can be measured not just in dollars but often in lives. His passion for reducing that cost led him to the acquisition community, where he embarked on a cloud-native journey for intelligence systems using PCF. Bryon has made a career of presenting to the highest levels of military leadership on topics ranging from national security to DevOps. Tune in to learn more!