One of the key requirements in military communications is managing information overload so that the network-based data collection and processing infrastructure gets the right information to soldiers in the field, whether or not they have stable cloud-connectivity. IIoT solutions and ecosystems are now mature enough to deliver meaningful and timely results.

The guiding principle of data-to-decision is collect ⇒ store ⇒ analyse ⇒ share. The United States Department of Defense and its Defense Agencies are all moving towards cloud computing to enable timely analysis of aggregated intelligence to achieve this principle. However, cloud technologies are not always available at the edge due to performance and resource constraints.