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DATA IN MOTION

Unleashing Data to Advance theNational Defense Strategy
Information dominance depends on getting relevant data to the point of impact immediately. This must be done with battles and wars
being fought in multiple domains simultaneously—land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Meeting this need requires a Joint All DomainOperations (JADO) strategy. Moving to this level of coordinated operations is hard—requiring working around 50+ years of siloed systems
that hold the data needed for a JADO approach to give our warfighters and peacekeepers real time data to make decisions in the field.
Traditional data-at-rest technologies like databases, even those modernized with data lakes and cloud scale data storage, cannot
operate at the speed of the mission. Data needs to be set in motion. Data mesh architectures help bridge the gap between the systems
we have and the decisions we need to support.
The battlefield is dynamic and is never at rest. The same should be true of our data. We’ve reached the limits of what we can do withdata at rest.

Introducing Data in Motion
Data in motion enables missions to tap into event streams that are continually evolving and disseminate them across warfightingfunctions. It also helps serve the diverse sets of data consumers geographies across military operations from HQ to the mission edge.
When applied to Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) warfare components, a Data in Motion approach is nothing short oftransformational.

“Data in motion is really about inverting the longstanding dynamic of data at rest. Rather thanstoring the data away in silos where it’s static and bringing retroactive questions to the data,
what you want to do is publish your data as a constant stream and deliver it to the questions
for real-time analysis.”— will laforest, confluent public sector cto

The Role of Data Mesh
Data mesh is an architecture that embraces the ubiquity of data in connecting processes. It decouples all the different actors within anorganization, so they can all produce and consume independently. It views data as a product, a shift from the traditional monolithic data
infrastructures that focus on the consumption, transformation, and storage into numerous data stores of different types. Instead, datamesh allows each domain to handle their own pipelines and independently produce data for downstream consumers. Data mesh is thetissue connecting these domains and their associated data assets to create a universal interoperability layer.
A data mesh architecture helps address all eight guiding principles in the DoD Data Strategy from viewing data as a strategic asset tocollective stewardship and enterprise access to being designed for compliance. It is the realization of enterprise data as a service.

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Data in Motion in Practice

Get Your Data Moving

A DoD program has the goal of invigorating innovation throughA Data in Motion approach will allow DoD and intelligencedata modernization using an event streaming architecture andorganizations to:integrated solutions for easier data analysis.

• Reduce data latency

The organization wants to ease data visibility with an enterprise• Receive timely data

data architecture prototype that allows users to accesspreviously siloed data, platforms, or producers by changing users’interaction with data. A tactical data mesh will become a global“source-of-truth” that will make it easier to integrate disparate
applications by unlocking mission silos and sharing data in realtime between analytics and mission systems.
Confluent has extended Apache Kafka® — an open source
distributed event streaming platform capable of handling trillionsof events a day—with the capabilities needed to implement adata mesh. These enhancements include enterprise security to• Work with continually fresh data
• Place situations in temporal context• Deliver data in contested and disrupted environments
Getting your data in motion requires careful planning and the rightpartner. Confluent powers an event streaming platform with theneeded flexibility, durability, and security required for complex, large
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