War Cloud: JEDI To Deploy Backpack Servers To Front Line
In a world where knowledge increasingly matters more than physical power, US troops can’t quickly access vital information in a labyrinth of often incompatible and inaccessible databases. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure — archly acronymized as JEDI — aims to fix all that.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 23, 2018 at 3:19 PM
PENTAGON: The Defense Department’s 10-year, $10 billion cloud computing contract isn’t just a huge information technology initiative. It’s also a weapon system.
As plans stand now, JEDI will include ruggedized, miniature servers — small enough to fit in a Humvee or, in some models, even a soldier’s backpack — to ensure frontline forces can quickly access all the data in the network. Larger versions of these “tactical edge computing devices†will go on ships or fit in shipping containers to form “rapidly deployable data centers†in combat zones, said Tim Van Name of the Defense Digital Service. Van Name called me from Irbil, Iraq, where he was inspecting current battlefield tech.
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/04/war-cloud-jedi-to-deploy-backpack-servers-to-front-line/
