Across the Air Force and Space Force, decades of technical debt — spanning BES platforms, satellite ground systems, and C2 architectures — create growing risk. Many of these systems, written in Ada, FORTRAN, and legacy C/C++, are difficult to maintain, secure, and evolve. The challenge is not just cloud migration — it’s understanding and safely modernizing complex, poorly documented codebases.

In this joint Microsoft and GitHub session, we’ll show how AI-assisted development and cloud-native practices — available today in Microsoft’s government cloud environments — enable practical, incremental modernization without full program restarts.

What You’ll Learn

• AI-Assisted Code Understanding & Refactoring
  How GitHub Copilot helps developers navigate legacy code, generate summaries, and accelerate refactoring into modern, testable services.
• Applying AI in Secure Cloud Environments
  How Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI capabilities can support code analysis, test generation, and modernization workflows within authorized environments.
• Modernization for Hybrid & Disconnected Systems
  How Azure Arc extends consistent management and deployment practices across on‑premises, edge, and cloud environments.
• Accelerating DevSecOps Adoption
  How GitHub and Azure DevOps enable automated pipelines that reduce manual processes while supporting traceability and compliance.
• Current Capabilities and Practical Next Steps
  What is broadly available today — and how to begin applying these approaches to existing programs.

Attendees Will Leave With

• A clear framework for modernizing legacy systems (refactor, rehost, or containerize)
• Practical patterns for using GitHub Copilot in legacy code scenarios
• An understanding of how Azure AI supports modernization workflows
• Actionable approaches aligned to Air Force and Space Force program realities

Audience

Software Engineers | Architects | Program Managers | CIO/CTO Staff

Format: 50‑minute session + 10‑minute Q&A