"The real magic that has enabled agile and DevSecOps for the Air Force, and probably the rest of the DoD, is really the overarching legal and policy changes. Things like the software acquisition pathway that helps us move away from large monolithic requirements. It's really allowing us to, over time, deliver a minimum viable capability release or a minimum viable product that then you can continue to expand on and continue to deliver capability on top of that," Lopez said during the panel discussion Future-proofing government with agile: Unveiling benefits and overcoming challenges. "I think this goes back several decades where someone said 'no successful complex system ever started as a complex system.' The opposite is also true. If you start off with a complex system, you're never going to make it successful. So agile to me is really the ability to start off with a small, simple, less complex system that you can continue to expand and continue to deliver capability over time."