JWCC work is meant to connect the military’s most remote edge with its farthest headquarters, all while bridging classifications and other sensitivities.
Many government agencies are overcoming these challenges using technologies such as data virtualization to implement a logical data fabric approach capable of ensuring trusted data access and sharing.
The U.S. Army's new Enterprise Cloud Management Agency is establishing an enterprise data platform and wants to migrate 50-150 applications to the cloud every year.
To speed up the process, the service is designing more software in the cloud and testing applications with digital twins that replicate the afloat network.
A badly needed war-fighting cloud capability ran into delays. The Pentagon's even more lucrative "crown jewel" IT project might face a protest because of its high price tag, but there are signs that it won't generate as much controversy, experts say.