From Data Silos to Scalable Solutions: Accelerating Sustainment Modernization Through a Digital Solution Factory
Customer Challenge
The Air Force Sustainment Center (AFSC) required an enterprise Data Integration and Optimization Digital Environment (DIODE) capability for migrating and modernizing numerous IT systems in support of their core sustainment mission.
Innovative Solution
ILW leveraged the Data Analytics as a Service (DAaaS) framework to standardize data flow across AFSC systems and processes, developing an event-driven data curation framework built on reusable microservices. By standardizing data interfaces and utilizing AWS serverless technologies, the framework delivers consistent, scalable, and high-performance processing. This foundation strategically positions AFSC to rapidly onboard new data producers and consumers, while seamlessly scaling microservice and artificial intelligence capabilities across operational workflows.
Benefits/Outcomes
- Fielded a solution factory within the Air Force Cloud One Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment and established a DIODE to optimize the flow of information and processes within the core business operations
- Enabled a digital depot to validate data and process interfaces, test and evaluate IT systems, and demonstrate integration technologies and processes to support digital transformation initiatives
- Standardized and optimized data flows to ensure transactional data flowing to and from the modernization efforts is accurate, timely, and meets interface requirements
Toolbox
- Cybersecurity & Cloud Engineering Expertise
- AWS Serverless Cloud Technologies
- AWS GovCloud
- Sensor Analytics
Business Value
- Provides a production-like Solution Factory environment for proving out integrations and security paradigms of proposed and future digital depot capabilities
- Supports analytic and outcome-based disparate data integration to highlight insights for decision making
Domain Expertise
- Operational technology data (assets with sensors/meters)
