Military Critical Clouds (MCC)
Abstract
The Military Critical Clouds (MCC) program will bring the advantages of the cloud computing paradigm to mission-critical military applications and combat systems. The advantages of cloud computing have been demonstrated in civilian and Government applications to include the efficient utilization of computing resources, enabling deployed systems to be upgraded in the field, and reduced recurring and non-recurring costs. With cloud computing, myriad one-of-a-kind, single platform specific processing implementations are eliminated and replaced with application effective computing on common hardware. To date, the cloud computing paradigm has not been effectively exploited in embedded military applications, for reasons related to performance and correctness constraints. In order to apply the cloud paradigm to military systems, MCC will make significant advances in the areas of virtualization, real-time responsiveness, reliability and verifiability, and security, while taking advantage of the cloud computing paradigm's inherent cost efficiency, manufacturing agility, maintainability, and programming democratization. Fully realizing these capabilities will open the door to "platform clouds" that provide dramatically improved effectiveness in our military combat systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 68e88d30c3395611257b7220f7d4655c