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Aero and Defense Manufacturing: GovCloud Engineering for a Major Defense Organization

Aero and Defense Manufacturing: GovCloud Engineering for a Major Defense Organization
  • Challenge

    This US government defense organization with a responsibility for coordinating complex activities around the globe is the first to initiate migration of its cyber domain to a commercial cloud provider to improve mission assurance and reliability while strengthening information technology efficiency and effectiveness.

    The customer needed a repeatable framework consisting of tools, processes and methodologies for securing, migrating, refactoring, and redeveloping existing applications into a government-approved commercial cloud environment. This environment also required a secure DevOps solution to support continuous delivery models to rapidly modernize existing and new applications.
  • Solution

    • Established an SCCA-based Advanced Foundation in AWS GovCloud environment
    • Build and tested High Availability for each application
    • 59 nodes redeveloped
    • 300 nodes refactored
    • Transformed legacy development practices to modern DevOps pipelines
  • Outcome

    • Moving to AWS and transforming applications to utilize a modern infrastructure has streamlined operations, allowing greater focus on core mission support
    • Improved system resiliency, performance and scalability
    • Improved availability to operational information for troubleshooting and security incident response leveraging Dashboard Accelerator
    • Automated pipeline-based deployments leveraging Deploy Accelerator drastically improved the ability to update and patch systems rapidly in response to vulnerabilities or other security threats

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