Bring Warfighter Capabilities

To The Tactical Edge

TIMELY, ACTIONABLE INFORMATION TO ENHANCE SURVIVABILITY, LETHALITY, AND MISSION SUCCESS

Warfighters execute complex missions in dangerous and demanding

environments. Their success requires actionable intelligence in a
consumable format delivered on time. Cloud computing could enable
that integration of sensors and effects with the massive expansion of
computational processing, advanced analytics, machine learning, and
artificial intelligence. However, warfighters at the tactical edge have not
had access to the cloud because of limited, disrupted, and disconnected
communications, security concerns, and severe size, weight, power, and
cost (SWaP-C) constraints imposed by austere environments.
Leidos, in collaboration with our military partners, created our Edge to
Cloud (E2C) ecosystem to solve this challenge. Edge to Cloud employs
advances in software containerization, hardware miniaturization,
automated provisioning, data access, Zero Trust security, optimized
hybrid tactical and commercial communications, and advanced analytics
to provide the capabilities of cloud computing at the tactical edge. E2C
combines resilient commodity hardware, software, and communications
that securely connects sensors, mission software, services, and data “If you think about the
via a vendor-interoperable infrastructure. In doing so, it brings legacy
systems and new capabilities to the point of use, adapted and delivered
challenge we have in AI,
at speed and scale, across heterogeneous and intermittently connected in amalgamating data and
environments.
E2C not only connects sensors, software, and services, but also provides
sharing data, what it means
a coherent framework for data management, information distribution, to take processing and move
and analytic exploitation. E2C replaces the legacy approach of ex-post-
facto integration of tactical devices by bringing the power of cloud that processing requirement
computing to the point of collection, aggregation, and analysis through to the tactical edge, without
the use of commodity hardware. By deploying E2C Infrastructure
as Code (IaC) using the Leidos DevSecOps process, E2C enables a cloud none of this [is
the standardization of infrastructure deployment models and rapid
instantiation of those models to any level of the E2C ecosystem. The
possible].”
E2C approach features containerized software deployment to quickly
and autonomously propagate upgrades, data, models, and software Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, Chief
deployments across the ecosystem. E2C also enables an ever-expanding Information Officer for the Joint
network of devices and sensors to collect, process, aggregate, and Chiefs of Staff
communicate information. Additionally, system data can be processed
and analyzed in near real-time, enhancing situational awareness.
But E2C goes far beyond “cloud at the edge”, with several significant
advances in processes and technologies that can immediately
augment any organization’s current and future missions. E2C delivers:
f A cloud computing ecosystem that enables collection,
aggregation, and dissemination of data from producers to users,
operators, and decision-makers to enable efficient, effective
decisions and actions.
f A software defined ecosystem, employing an “Everything as
Code” approach for infrastructure, configuration, security, and
applications (This means E2C can provision a new environment to
host a tenant, mission app owner, or project within minutes).
f A model for how edge devices (mobile compute, smart phones,
edge sensors, wearables, Internet of Things devices) can be
integrated to increase the speed and accuracy of data correlation
to support decision making at the edge.
OUR CAPABILITIES
f An extensive palette of DevSecOps capabilities across the entire
compute ecosystem, enabling a “Software Factory in a Box”, and f System engineering & integration
allowing the deployment of a DevSecOps pipeline to any layer or and life cycle support of mission-
node in the ecosystem in minutes. critical applications for a broad
spectrum of government
f Cloud-based development tools in which operators can develop
customers.
and deploy from anywhere. We augmented this capability with
templates, configuration, tradecraft, and scripts in the ecosystem. f Rapid and agile research,
development, integration,
f Automated deployment of containerized mission software,
test, evaluation and transition
models, applications, and microservices to any layer of the
capabilities.
ecosystem (tactical edge, on premise, federated, enterprise cloud,
commercial cloud, or hybrid). f Deep domain knowledge of
soldier-borne information and
f A hardware, cloud, and vendor-interoperable design: E2C can be
communication systems, gained
extended to Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and other
from decades of experience
cloud service providers, virtualized on-premise or hybrid models.
supporting a long legacy of Army
f Management and orchestration of all ecosystem nodes (and dismounted soldier situation
all containerized applications/services therein) from any other awareness programs.
authorized and provisioned node.
f Leading-edge sensor application
expertise and R&D programs.
WHY PARTNER WITH LEIDOS
Leidos approached this challenge through a combination of Internal f Extensive data analytics,
Research and Development funds and a Cooperative Research and exploitation, and AI experience
Development Agreement with the U.S. Army. We teamed with partners to locate, integrate, and
such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), HashiCorp, Rancher Federal, process relevant information
GitLab, Telos and other technology leaders to build an ecosystem that and transform it into prioritized
would extend the cloud to the tactical edge. Our team’s prior service actionable information.
members brought an operational focus to develop the underlying f Expertise in cybersecurity and
systems, devices, and connections that power cloud at the edge information assurance for various
and to meet the challenges posed by near-peer and Great Power U.S. Government Agencies,
threats. And we adopted recent innovations in systems composition, Intelligence Community (IC)
deployment, management, and connectivity that will enable rapid organizations, and commercial
provisioning, deployment, and sustainment across the enterprise and customers.
the larger partner community.

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