IBM Defense Operations Platform

Rapidly deploy missions from command centers to battlefields

Overview

IBM Defense Operations Platform provides an integrated environment to build and deploy mission capabilities.

IBM Defense Operations Platform provides a common, reusable, and interoperable software platform. It enables defense customers and systems integrators to rapidly architect, design, develop, test, deploy, and monitor new mission services and applications. This platform includes several editions.

Rapid onboarding of mission capabilities - optimized for the creation and deployment of mission capabilities. Onboarding times have been reduced from months to weeks or days.
Rapid implementation - automated deployment of a complete mission environment. It is designed to enable a rapid mission ramp-up and an increased operations tempo.
Modular design - interoperable, modular, and scalable, enabling clients to adopt just the right amount of the provided capability.
Enablement of common defense enterprise services - provides Core Interoperability Services that map to both NATO and US DoD Core Enterprise Services definitions, for example, chat, messaging, eventing, mission thread monitoring, and mission capability discovery and publishing.
Durability, security, and maintainability - assists in achieving data durability, security, and maintainability requirements of a defense enterprise.
Mission creation - a Mission Services Workbench for the creation and deployment of mission services is provided. The workbench deploys to the IBM Defense Operations Platform synchronized run-time editions.
Deployment editions - run-times range from large, fixed data centers to lighter, deployable command posts and personal soldier platforms that operate at the edge of the battlefield.
Hardware virtualization layer - enables deployment on a variety of client-chosen vendor platforms.