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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AND MODERNIZING THE ARMY


healthy dose of paranoia, one of the authors, then-Capt. Lucas Gebhart, developed a plan to bring the organization back to a healthy deployable state by synchronizing two to three years of maintenance with a busy training schedule in a 12-month period.


Over the course of that year, 4-6 HARS would accomplish that maintenance, learn of, prepare for and initiate deployment to Iraq and learn of, train on and field the JUONS requirement. Tis was disruptive to the unit’s deployment training plan, requiring tens of hands-on hours per airframe over weeks of downtime per airframe in addition to the already robust maintenance requirements in a unit trying to train and deploy to Iraq. More importantly, from the perspective of the observing aviators, they were giving up a security blanket with over a decade of proven results (the CMWS) in exchange for a system that seemed buggy, hastily fielded and with which they flew precisely zero hours prior to taking off for the first time in a highly contested envi- ronment. To put icing on the cake, in addition to the training and maintenance disruptions from JUONS installation, field- ing disrupted block leave afforded to Soldiers pending a yearlong rotation to Iraq.


ATEC’s data is a weapon and a force multiplier.


AN INFLECTION POINT In early 2022, recognizing the shortcomings of its data analy- sis and delivery capability, ATEC hired a chief data officer, with the mandate to digitally transform the way that ATEC conducts the core of its mission. Bringing together a group of experts, and leveraging environment and technical assistance from U.S. Army Futures Command, ATEC set out to design and implement the ATEC Data Mesh. A data mesh collates data along logical busi- ness lines, while maintaining access control at the data owner level, leveraging robust governance and cataloguing to enable federated search across the full data corpus. By November 2023, ATEC brought the data mesh from ideation to authority to oper- ate, the core requirement for use of an information system in the DOD, allowing ATEC to onboard its user base and begin to transform data use across the command.


Te ATEC Data Mesh seeks to resolve both technical and bureau- cratic hurdles to efficient operational conduct, with the ATEC


WHAT’S A DATA MESH?


A data mesh makes data more readily available to stakeholders by storing data in a common location with separation along logical business lines, while enabling data owners to control access. The ATEC Data Mesh breaks data down into data domains based on test mission areas, appends appropri- ate metadata and catalogues data at upload to enable federated search.


When fully implemented, stakeholders will no longer need to scour discs, hard drives or unfor- matted file architectures to find data for a system under test—they will be able to find all related data via a single search utility.


Cloud Enablement Team providing the infrastructure, technical support, funding and managed services to the entirety of ATEC. Te construction includes continuous integration, continuous deployment pipelines to emulate a robust commercial environ- ment within the security required by DOD. Taking the “Field of Dreams” approach, designing and delivering world-class capa- bility for any interested party in ATEC, the cloud team built and deployed data domains encapsulated in ATEC’s authority to operate for each of ATEC’s subordinate elements. After onboard- ing, users will find a robust set of database servers (e.g., SQL, SMI, Mongo, PostGres), data analytics tools (e.g., Databricks, Synapse, Function Apps) and an Azure Virtual Desktop pool (a virtualized computer infrastructure) complete with the soft- ware tools that ATEC’s professionals use on a day-to-day basis (e.g., Python, R, JMP, MatLab). Te cloud team’s objective is to enable any analyst, any data, anywhere.


Te core of the ATEC Data Mesh is the common reference model (CRM), an application program interface (API) infrastructure that seeks to link to root authoritative sources of data through- out the Army, while exposing the root authoritative data for test and evaluation. Te CRM will enable reuse of this root data in applications and software within ATEC and the Army, allowing developers to form applications without risk of the underlying data becoming stale or incorrect. ATEC’s portion of the CRM is the ATEC Enterprise Framework, a systems modeling language model of the entire ATEC enterprise, its capabilities and its business processes. Expanding on this work, ATEC is building an evaluation framework that seeks to standardize measures of


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