Reliable Multi-Cloud Access at the Tactical Edge

The rapid adoption of cloud technologies for capabilities envisioned by programs such as Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) to support machine learning, IoT and ISR provides new opportunities for defense organizations to achieve and maintain C5ISR overmatch — as long as networks can reliably deliver those benefits at the tactical network edge. Modern tactical networks must:

• Be deployable in reduced size, weight, and power — while delivering access to ever more data — to keep up with mission demands.
• Be operational in environments of increasing cyber and EW threats, and when disconnected from the cloud.
• Support support multiple commercial clouds and cloud technologies, ensuring interoperability with all data sources and applications.

Recent COTS advancements in rugged, embedded, high-speed computing, networking and infrastructure software can meet these challenges — delivering 10x the performance, major security advances, interoperability and reliability.