Defense agencies globally are increasingly reliant on multi-domain capabilities to make crucial decisions quickly. To preserve the decision-making advantage, alliances such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Five Eyes (FVEY) must integrate classified data from all domains within a zero-trust framework.
Current data integration methods are a challenge for timely intelligence sharing and interoperability, especially at the far edge. Legacy information technology (IT) platforms support decades-old vehicles and communications systems. These legacy systems are on different lifecycle timelines, difficult to maintain, and often incompatible with one another. Such outdated data landscapes are counter-productive to common operating pictures, sharing actionable intelligence, and achieving seamless Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) or Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2).
With Oracle’s distributed cloud strategy, defense agencies globally can achieve zero-trust interoperability and mission effectiveness—whether in data centers or remote mission areas with poor connectivity (i.e., disrupted, disconnected, intermittent, or low-bandwidth (DDIL)). Oracle’s goal is to be the world’s most trusted cloud platform, and zero-trust principles are at the core of our products.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is mission-ready at every US security classification level, including Top Secret. With unclassified government regions in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and our EU Sovereign Cloud, Oracle’s range of government cloud products offers defense agencies a data integration layer with complete data sovereignty.
The goal of interoperability in CJADC2, MDO, and Federated Mission Networking is to maintain the decision-making advantage. Accurate common operating pictures and sharing actionable intelligence derived from various alliance data sources requires a secure data integration layer. Implementing data integration across all domains and classification levels relies on core-to-edge hyperscale cloud infrastructure. Oracle technology provides this strategic data integration layer at every classification level from core to far-edge, including mission networks, command and control, and sensor nets.
The following figure shows how Oracle technology can interconnect allies—even with integrated satellite communications.
Oracle Cloud Isolated Region is Oracle’s air-gapped, hyperscale cloud built for defense missions globally. Combined with Oracle’s integrated Identity and Access Management (IAM) and isolated networking architecture, allies can easily and securely exchange data between respective Isolated Regions.
Global alliances can take advantage of the following Oracle Cloud Isolated Region differentiators:
Modernized mission networks must evolve with AI enablement as a core capability. In the future, alliance intelligence-sharing might involve sharing AI and ML models, where partner assistance with AI and ML could soon be as common as sending physical supplies. Oracle Cloud Isolated Region offers AI and ML services at the classified level. And with Oracle’s NVIDIA partnership, Oracle uniquely offers defense and intelligence customers AI and ML capabilities to use deep learning at scale, and from core to edge, including:
Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure extends cloud to the tactical far edge, empowering mission owners with rapidly scalable edge compute. As devices in the field consume and send more data, interoperable digital ecosystems will require more data integration. By distributing cloud resources closer to the mission, allies can project awareness and enable remote mission owners to make timely decisions.
You can use Roving Edge Infrastructure in several far-edge scenarios:
Alliances must process vast amounts of classified data, both structured and unstructured. As massive data lakes grow alongside a proliferation of global sensors, intelligence production must keep pace with the speed of mission. Oracle Autonomous Database, deployable on Oracle Cloud Isolated Region, uses ML to automate database tuning, security, backups, updates, and other routine management tasks traditionally performed by database administrators (DBAs). With Autonomous Database, your DBAs can be empowered to spend less time on administrative or “keep-the-lights-on” activities, and instead spend more time on achieving greater impact to the mission.
With Oracle Autonomous Database, you can deploy:
Accept nothing less than true hyperscale, classified cloud: Oracle Cloud Isolated Region. As a mission owner, you should demand from the industry what you need. Connecting air, cyber, land, maritime, and space domains across all classification levels requires core-to-edge hyperscale cloud. For information about Oracle Cloud’s hands-on workshops, reach out to your account representative.
Greg is a product manager on Oracle's Global Government Sector team responsible for strategy and product development of Oracle Cloud Isolated Region.
Previously at Oracle, Greg managed virtual networking site reliability for isolated cloud regions, and later managed cross domain solution (CDS) infrastructure for isolated cloud regions. Before joining Oracle, Greg served 10 years in the US Army including special operations in a range of global environments.
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