DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

To protect national security and increase warfighter effectiveness, the DoD must become more agile while more securely distributing workloads and data across its infrastructures. This means taking apps and data into the field where people need it to close the threat capability gap and exceed enemy capacity. And as the largest federal department in the United States, the DoD needs to become more competitive by modernizing legacy infrastructure and outdated processes—without compromising the security of IT systems that are critical to its missions.

Through Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) and technology initiatives like Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), the DoD seeks to improve data availability and integration among and within service branch and coalition partner systems. And it seeks security-focused software supply chains with new capabilities to conduct effective military operations. Here, the goals are to reduce cognitive workloads on system users, increase operational readiness, and optimize the use of limited resources at the tactical edge.

Red Hat® OpenShift® is the only enterprise container platform with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance and multiple layers of federally certified security hardening, including FIPS 140-2 validated crypto and Common Criteria certified platforms. And Red Hat solutions align with the DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Reference Design (DEDSORD), an initiative that focuses on automating workflow, tools, and services to scale, as well as standards critical to the warfighter—including performance measurement capability.

Red Hat’s approach to DEDSORD offers a comprehensive platform solution for DevSecOps to meet agency standards for security, compliance, privacy, transparency, and trust. It also provides the necessary productive abstractions for DoD organizations to focus on delivering applications rather than technical details. It can be implemented anywhere Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is deployed, including public cloud service providers, on-prem data centers, and edge and air-gapped environments.

Responding with agility to evolving threats is a strength of the military. But with today’s rapid pace of technological innovation comes the DoD’s most pressing challenge—securing assets and intelligence across all branches and agencies.

As a partner in the modernization process,  Red Hat can help the DoD make security more sustainable by supporting digital transformation through DevSecOps and the adoption of a comprehensive hybrid cloud solution that improves integration and interoperability among systems.

Getting to mission capability faster—with less risk— requires transformation of complex networks to improve interoperability of military efforts across all branch domains. These complex networks require significant time and resources to maintain technology infrastructures—while keeping combat systems secure and relevant for the future. The age and inflexibility of some platforms makes many systems vulnerable to attack.

Red Hat understands that the DoD faces unique challenges and must implement MDO strategies to integrate and coordinate command and control operations simultaneously across air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace domains.

Challenges to overcome to increase operational readiness include:

Since each military branch brings its own expertise and technology to the battlefield—and its respective physical and logistical limitations—it’s necessary to integrate All Command Operations (ACO), Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO), and MDO simultaneously across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains to effectively coordinate and control operations.

As technology has progressed, so have the capabilities and sophistication of America’s near-peer adversaries. The DoD now needs to achieve the complex integration of its systems across all domains during the window of peak capability known as convergence to overwhelm adversary response capabilities. Red Hat’s portfolio of solutions effectively addresses DoD’s needs for data volume, variety, velocity, veracity and value across all domains.

Red Hat’s holistic approach to digital transformation can help the DoD not only jumpstart its  modernization efforts, but also serve as a reliable partner throughout the entire process. And as the DoD seeks technology to move to mission capability faster, and with less risk, our open hybrid cloud approach and comprehensive solutions informed by edge computing can equip the DoD to implement MDO and effectively conduct military operations across all service branches and agencies.