Agenda

Information technologies have shaped the modern battlefield, challenging the nation's defense systems and capabilities. To maintain a tactical and strategic edge, defense agencies must adapt and incorporate the newest technologies and data strategies into their arsenal. Join Defense One’s “The Future of Defense Data and IT” to learn more about the growing importance of data as a defense asset, how to manage it, today’s cutting-edge tools and practices, and the ongoing efforts to develop technology for tomorrow’s battlefield.

This session will explore how the Defense Department can modernize its data strategies, adopt modern enterprise cloud offerings, and leverage data to create new insights into DOD operations, logistics, and personnel. We’ll also look, conceptually, at what the future of AI might mean for the Defense Department away from the hype. For instance, how data, compute and sound analytics practices can reveal new insights about the health of the force on a macro and micro level; how it streamline logistics and backend operations as well as set the conditions for much faster kinetic operations in a joint, all-domain environment.

Jeremy Snow, Veritas Sales Engineer, will discuss the next evolution of Veritas solutions as a SaaS offering and the new cloud offering.

Cloud is the crux of the Defense Department’s plans to use data as a strategic asset and leverage the best of automation and AI. This interview will cover all of the Pentagon’s major cloud projects, from the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability to STRATUS to new capabilities being designed to improve data access from the battlefield to the boardroom.

The DoD is drowning in data. Join Patrick Tucker and Tara Murphy Dougherty as they explore the ways in which the DoD can strengthen industry partnerships and leverage the potential of the plethora of available data 

DoD agencies want more choice, innovation, and interoperability with the cloud partners who serve them. Most critically, they want access to best-in-class innovation and technologies to meet the evolving needs of the mission while being secure. Join this discussion with Sean Maday, Head of DoD Engineering, as we discuss how Google is supporting the DoD at the speed of the mission with transformative AI, built-in security, global connectivity and innovation to meet the mission requirements of today – and tomorrow.