Foundational Enablers Efforts
Abstract
CDAO’s Foundational Enablers efforts in this PE include: * Acquisition Ecosystem: provides rapid, effective, and efficient acquisition support to CDAO and DoD at large (through decentralized offerings) by providing contracting capabilities, guidance, and a highly trained acquisition workforce. The CDAO Acquisition Ecosystem provides several types of contracting mechanisms / vehicles such as CSOs, OTAs, BOAs, and BPAs; expedited contracting processes; and AI-driven tools to streamline federal procurements. * Advana Platform: the Advana Platform effort is responsible for providing the Secretary of Defense (SD), Deputy Secretary of Defense (DSD), Joint Staff, Principal Staff Assistants (PSAs), and each Military Service with enterprise data acquisition, data operations, and data analytics capabilities within a Government and Military-owned environment hosted in DoD and NGA clouds as well as available at the edge. The Advana Platform delivers 24/7 continuous operations on NIPR, SIPR, JWICS, SUNet, and Edge environments and supports a rapidly growing user community that now exceeds 75,000+ users, 450+ data connections, hosts the DoD Federated Data Catalog, hosts the DSD Pulse applications, and provides the core infrastructure for the CDAO Data Integration Layer. The “Creating Data Advantage” Memo, signed by DSD on 5 May 2021, directs that “The Advancing Analytics (Advana) platform is the single enterprise authoritative data management and analytics platform for the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Principal Staff Assistants (PSAs), with inputs from all DoD Components”. * Secure Unclassified Network (SUNet) Enterprise: SUNet is a National Security System used as an AI development environment and Multi-national collaboration & data sharing environment for non-traditional partners (Sky Blue). Its unique capabilities include: - Unique and Extensible US Government Platform: - Designed as an Open Architecture, Non-Proprietary USG capability - Internet accessible, GIG-Waiver precludes special hardware/software required to access, alternative MFA - Supports commercial, non-traditional development, and non-CAC multi-national partners. Government (IL-5) and Industry Data Protection. Hybrid, On-Prem, Multi-cloud Enterprise - AI Development & Non-Traditional Partner Data Sharing used to deploy 250+ AI models, label 208+ million objects, and build over 1,000+ models from 30+ vendors - Partner collaboration platform for 25+ international partners, multiple mission profiles * CDAO Centrally Managed Support: Centrally managed support provides basic and advanced workforce enabling tools to empower the CDAO to advance mission for DoD. * Defense Digital Services (DDS): The Defense Digital Services (DDS) effort provides DoD with highly-technical expertise to advise on and rapidly develop, prototype, and deploy digital solutions to meet the needs of the warfighter and the policymaker. Digital solutions provided by this effort include prototypes, technology assessments of government digital services, cybersecurity solutions via bug bounties, and surging digital services for crises response. * Enterprise Platforms and Capabilities (EPC) Data Engineering, Data Operations, and Data Governance: CDAO's Enterprise Platforms and Capabilities (EPC) Data Engineering, Data Operations, and Data Governance effort implements enterprise data acquisition, data engineering, data governance, data cataloging, and data integration capabilities available to 75,000+ Advana users and is required to support several top-priority CDAO use cases across the Department. These top-priority use cases include DSD Pulse metrics, the DoD Audit, the Federated Data Catalog, GIDE, J4 Operational Logistics, J35S Orion, J8 GFMDI, J7 JEXNET, all BASI products, and 300+ production applications hosted in the Advana platform. This effort also develops and sustains the expanding the number of enterprise data connections feeding data from Authoritative Data Sources (ADS) into the Federated Data Catalog hosted in Advana. This effort manages and currently sustains 450+ active data connections feeding data into the Federated Data Catalog.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- e2fa43e7bd12b4973f5c443f9abf981f