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The transition to data mesh is a top priority for federal technology leaders, but the complexity and time required can be daunting. https://lnkd.in/eP_KZ_2K In this article, ECS Vice President of Defense Solutions Karthik Srinivasan shares his perspective on how agencies are approaching the move to data mesh and the challenges they face, from disparate data systems to the need for organizational change. Karthik also explains how ECS is helping customers accelerate their journey by demonstrating tailored, production-ready data mesh solutions that comply with CDAO and Army requirements. Read the full article to learn more about making the transition to data mesh and Karthik's advice for agency leaders: https://lnkd.in/eP_KZ_2K

Brigadier General Mark Miles at IBM #SPADE2024 Canberra, Hyatt. Opened the morning by exploring the concept of decision superiority. Defined as “the ability to make better decisions faster”, he provided insight into three key concepts .. The ‘ability’ ... ‘better’, and ..‘faster’.   First, the ‘ability’: Primarily, the ability to communicate. In terms of a peer adversary, this is not typically unique, and we expect all sides to have similar communications services at near parity.   Better – This is unique; and only one side will be ‘best’. They key is how to best orchestrate and present the data, so that better decisions are intentionally architected to be better .. and on the battlefield this is typically, supported by an active ‘data fabric’.   Faster – This is also unique, and only one side will be ‘fastest’. First, only possible if you have solved the data fabric problem. Second, we want to leverage technology for speed of analysis. And, these tool are evolving, and likely still have the most to contribute to rapid decision making. However, these tools must be part of a continual improvement cycle, otherwise you won’t stay ‘best’ and ‘fastest’.

The Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2), the US Army’s new approach to a data-centric C2 architecture, will provide multiple competitive opportunities for industry to contribute #technology across an ecosystem of applications, data infrastructure, #software and #hardware. Read more about the industry day hosted by PEO C3T here: http://spr.ly/6048o5iDy #USArmy #Technologies #ArmyAcquisition #ContinuousTransformation #NextGenerationCommandAndControl #BeAllYouCanBe #TechDevelopers

I still find this series of videos a great crash course on datacenters. The datacenter industry continues to explode and needs talent from all walks of life, all backgrounds, all experience levels to construct, operate and maintain! And as Carrie Goetz has said many times, you just need to be curious and have a continuous learning mindset. #vetsintech #seabees #militarytransition #veterans Infrastructure Masons

Follow these 4 steps to achieve data-first modernization! 👣 This strategic guide from #HPE will show you how to complete a successful data-first transformation journey. Create a CXO-driven data strategy first, then follow the rest of the steps to make the most of your investments into data. To learn more, contact Nautilus Federal.

A few weeks ago I had a chance to listen this talk: https://lnkd.in/d5QQzZ9J by Derek Collison. It was such an inspirational presentation. The "aha moment" for me was when Derek mentioned that we should invert our current focus from: "workloads, data, connectivity" to "connectivity, data, workloads". The focus on connectivity and the emphasis on message passing and pub/sub reminded me of the Object Oriented description given by Alan Kay here: https://lnkd.in/dhdvtPYh which also emphasizes message passing. I highly recommend watching the presentation, it might give a different perspective on current state of affairs and maybe help you challenge the status-quo.

Planning is half the battle in government tech upgrades. Dive into part one of our systems modernization series and learn how to lay the groundwork for success!

APIs in July! 🤖✈️🏝️ https://lnkd.in/e6kJdcDM We're pleased to announce the public release of the DAF API Reference Architecture. This has been developed in conjunction with numerous technical stakeholders across the DAF and aims to start a conversation around what Enterprise service support for APIs need to be. This is going to drive requirements into our ICAM solution, in part answer how we defend application flows, and provide support for micro-services architectures across the DAF. It also seeks to provide a cohesive solution for accessing data from our major data platforms as well as make it easy to integrate with software produced and provided by the DAF. It's modeled after how major technology vendors have sought to tackle the challenging landscape of fielding hundreds of technology components built by different teams that all need to integrate with each other. It is a part of the natural growth of sophistication that organizations undertake as they mature and deliver capabilities that need to work together as a cohesive whole. This journey isn't easy, but we are blessed to have commercial partners and products available to us that help with parts of the whole of the solution. We're also interested in the feedback along the lines of "if you just think of the solution X way, this product fits". We're not accepting formal proposals at this time, and it should not impact work currently underway, but we do want greater awareness of what is out there. We're interested in your feedback! I have a talk about this (including your feedback) at DAFITC this year, and we'd love if you could get any comments back to us within the next month. We'll be publishing a roadmap and a strategy doc to accompany this, once we're more certain that it's going to answer the needs of the different communities it was designed to serve. -Jay

with so much important focus on data leaders speaking the language business these days, i hope you’ll find Julie Fawdington’s depth of experience as insightful as i did in this episode!