Defense Operations Grid Mesh Accelerator (DOGMA)

The Department of Defense (DOD) recently announced a pared-down list of six critical technology areas, and among them is upgrading contested logistics technologies. When servicemembers are engaged in complex and dangerous operations, often in remote or austere environments, the ability to streamline communications and operations and develop a clear common operating picture (COP) is critical.

Collaborating with General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped develop the Defense Operations Grid-Mesh Accelerator (DOGMA), which offers promise in improving the management of military operations in contested environments. DOGMA integrates GDIT’s LunaAI predictive analytics with AWS services like Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Wickr and AWS Lambda resulting in a robust, scalable, secure environment for managing and executing military missions. 

Even in such fast-moving, unpredictable environments as modern military missions, DOGMA can provide real-time insights and forecasts. DOGMA can also leverage its AI and machine learning capabilities to enhance incoming data and display it as a COP in the command center.

The solution has shown initial successes in multiple military exercises, including the Technology Readiness Experimentation (T-REX) series, hosted by the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering in March 2025, and Cyber Fortress 2025, hosted in August 2025 by the Virginia Army National Guard. At the T-REX event, DOGMA tracked more than 350 unmanned and commercial aircraft to predict future locations, and accelerated decision-making from 30 minutes to three seconds.

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