Oracle has formed the Oracle Defense Ecosystem, a global initiative to “redefine the delivery” of defence and government technology.
The ecosystem is designed to strengthen US and allied national security and help accelerate the “disruptive potential” of emerging defence technology, by creating new opportunities for defence innovators to leverage the latest cloud and AI technologies.
National security teams are often unable to access the latest cloud and AI technologies, especially from up-and-coming technology vendors, due to complex procurement processes, and strict qualification standards. Providers also have difficulty in accessing the relationship networks required to gain admission into the US Defense Industrial Base (DIB), for instance, said Oracle.
Initial members of the Oracle Defense Ecosystem include Arqit, Blackshark.ai, Entanglement, Fenix Group, now part of Nokia Federal Solutions, Koniku, Kraken, Mattermost, Metron, SensusQ, and Whitespace.
Defence and government technology organisations that join the Oracle Defense Ecosystem can “accelerate growth” by “quickly and easily” accessing the following capabilities:
-Oracle sales support: Members can work with Oracle’s sales team to develop global defence industry messaging and solutions that best meet the unique needs of each customer, and leverage solutions from within the ecosystem to deliver technology innovation
-Oracle Cloud Marketplace: Members can make their solutions available to customers in every OCI region globally
-Defence acquisition guidance: Members can work with Oracle’s dedicated executive advisors to gain the defence, technology, and procurement expertise they need to accelerate growth
-Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) acceleration: Members can “significantly speed up” CMMC compliance, helping save months of manual work mapping controls and setting up compliance-ready cloud architecture, by leveraging the OCI Core Landing Zone
-Secure Cloud Computing Architecture (SCCA) compliance: Members can reduce the time and cost of building SCCA-compliant deployments, standardise their security approach across entire system portfolios, and “simplify” workload deployment by leveraging the Oracle Cloud Native SCCA Landing Zone framework and documentation, while tapping into Oracle’s expertise in these areas
-Oracle NetSuite: Members will have access to preferred pricing for NetSuite’s AI-powered business management suite
-Facilities: Members can receive access to Oracle secure office space used to support defence customers
-Training and certification: Members can benefit from Oracle University training and certification credits for OCI, applications, and databases
“Nothing is more important than the national security of the US and its allies,” said Rand Waldron, vice president, Oracle. “Oracle and our defence ecosystem plans to innovate and scale to help the US and its allies deter conflicts and win on physical and digital battlefields.”
