Legacy Modernization to Cloud Native
Customer Challenge
The Air Force Sustainment Center (AFSC) required legacy modernization of cradle-to-grave accountability of nuclear weapon related material (NWRM) assets across supply, transportation, and maintenance.
Innovative Solution
ILW adopted the Data Analytics as a Service (DAaaS) framework—a standardized approach for data collection, curation, exposure, and analysis—to modernize and enhance existing capabilities using DoD cloud-native services. By integrating flexible, native serverless and Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms for data transformation, storage, and processing, ILW streamlined and standardized analytics, enabling end-to-end visibility and accountability. Additionally, ILW conducted the full risk management framework process for the technologies, which included developing the system security plan, verifying control measures, and maintaining cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
Benefits/Outcomes
- Optimizes compute and storage data flows for transactional and historical data sets of the NWRM supply chain and associated analytics
- Standardizes data transformation and data integration to ensure consistency
- Removes difficult to maintain data flows, data structures, and analytics
- Provides a new technical baseline within DAF Cloud One Microsoft Gov Cloud environment
Toolbox
- Azure managed services to modernize data interfaces, data structures, and data transformations
- Data pipelines, data architecture, data management, database engineering, cloud design, solution architecture, application development, systems administration, DevOps
- Risk management framework, cybersecurity
Business Value
- Ensures cradle-to-grave accountability of NWRM assets
- Eases maintenance and future updates
- Reduces administrative and cost burden of maintaining accountability of assets
Domain Expertise
- NWRM
- Supply
- Transportation
- Maintenance
