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Achieving full mission readiness is becoming increasingly complex and requires dynamic defense technology solutions. Securing and protecting people, the nation, and information is impacted by a multitude of challenges including COVID-19. New threats and domains for warfare continually emerge, including cyber and space along with disruptive technologies, like AI and Quantum. Dealing with these threats necessitates using data as a critical enabler for information driven operations.
As defense departments navigate increasingly sophisticated threat landscapes, they are eyeing a shift to a DevSecOps mindset to ensure they can securely innovate. At a recent roundtable, produced by Government Executive Media Group and hosted by IBM and Red Hat®, experts across the DOD provided their insights on the critical role that DevSecOps plays to support the mission. These insights are captured in the Top Takeaways: 4 Ways the Defense Department Can Leverage DevSecOps and a report from the IBM Center for the Business of Government on Achieving Mission Outcomes through DevSecOps.
IBM can help you transition to an advanced hybrid cloud-based environment built on technology that is designed for your mission, including AI, SAP S/4HANA and “cloud to the edge” innovation. Through the IBM cloud management capabilities including Red Hat OpenShift®, you can securely access data anywhere within this new environment, regardless of cloud provider—or even if the information resides on in-house systems.
Digital Transformation of Shipyards
Problem:
To maintain business resiliency and continuity required in the New Normal, operations-intensive industries need to begin treating unanticipated disruptions to development, product management, supply chain, or other service activities. They have difficulty monitoring operational performance and health across siloed organizations:
- Difficulty empowering employees to make the best decisions efficiently and effectively, and automating tasks to enable highest value use of skilled labor time.
- Succumbing to the time, error, expense, and risk inherent in manually rolling out many devices, assets, and processes across locations (“Pilot Purgatory”).
- Need to prevent costly recalls, an excess of scrap metal, down time on the shop floor and lengthy root cause analysis.
- Need to mitigate and manage cyber-risks and concerns about the security and vulnerability of devices and sensors.
Technology Solution:
Exploit the power of data and digital technologies to revolutionize operations:
- IBM Smart Edge for Welding (SE4W) aggregates different AI-based quality inspection offerings including parametric, acoustic, and visual insights into a unique solution that can solve some of the most challenging pain points in any welding application, realizing a step change in quality performance.
- IBM Digital Twin delivers the ability to visually model, simulate, test, and optimize assets, operations, and processes in 3 phases: Advisory Services; Design, Build Deploy Services; and Scale and Autonomize Services.
- IBM Robotics customized payloads for the Boston Dynamics Spot robot to collect more data than was possible before by bringing the sensors to the assets, eliminating the expense of instrumenting legacy equipment, and gathering data safely, accurately, and frequently.
Benefits:
Enjoy unprecedented, secure access to complex data to radically reinvent and simplify your processes.
- Reimagined Processes – Up to 40% reduction in process steps, up to 90% reduction in human touchpoints with higher automation.
- Operational Cost Savings – Extract more value out of your existing investments in operational performance improvement and enable faster, sharper, and safer operational decisions while saving 65% operational cost.
- Reduced Risk – Increase safety by minimizing human involvement in dangerous or remote environments. Avoid costly compliance and regulation violations.
- Real-Time Quality, High-Speed Insights – Integrate information from sensors that capture 100% sample size, to make real time maintenance decisions and avert sudden breakdowns, and to enable real-time quality insights at scale using acoustic and visual analytics.
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