As part of its digital transformation, the U.S. Army focused on empowering our Warfighters with the critical capability to achieve decision-dominance with the right data at the right time. To accomplish this, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Data, Engineering and Software, DASA(DES) team has developed an approach towards implementing Data Mesh, starting with a Unified Data Reference Architecture (UDRA) that:
– flattens and simplifies the Army’s data architecture,
– streamlines data-product sharing across mission partners and
– supports data-drive decision making at greater speed and scale.
An initial implementation available to operationalize the architecture (Unified Data Reference Implementation, UDRI) is available through the Innovation Exchange Lab (IXL). With this implementation, you can interact with the UDRI services and components to better understand and make decisions about your data solutions and conformance with the UDRA.