Josef Allen, USAF
Adam Gruber, Applied Insight
Those defending our nation depend on access to accurate, timely information – and must manage large amounts of data from more sources now than at any other point in history. Disparate data sources, networks, and classification levels currently make it impossible for users in SAP and CAP environments to view data within a single standardized and normalized lens, limiting mission agility and increasing the time between data ingest and incorporation into command decisions.
To overcome these limitations, mission teams must currently develop custom tools and rely on manual processing of information to aggregate data and inform decisions. Feature gaps in pre-existing cloud capabilities within SAP environments further inhibit Guardians and other teams from efficiently leveraging cutting-edge technological capabilities to satisfy mission requirements, such as real-time data streaming, access to native cloud resources, and multi-cloud capabilities.
Providing holistic data processing in SAP environments presents three major challenges: data transfer across and between classification fabrics, data access governance, and multi-tenancy. Additionally, implementing a fully comprehensive Zero Trust Architecture is paramount.
This problem is complex, but with the right tools it is solvable.
To accelerate data sharing to mission teams in a Common SAP across classification fabrics and disparate networks, USSF built a highly scalable, multi-tenant, ATO’d environment – empowering program teams to migrate critical mission workloads to the cloud while maintaining logical separation of those workloads. Additionally, the USSF team designed and implemented a cutting-edge data management capability that enforces Zero Trust access to data assets leveraging a cloud-based architecture.