MICROSOFT
Traditional acquisition and development techniques
lack the agility required to deliver mission critical
technology solutions in the defense and intelligence
domain. Kate Maxwell explains how that’s changing.
WRITTEN BY:
PADDY SMITHPRODUCED BY:
MIKE SADRHow Microsoft is
Driving Defense
Innovation at the
Speed of Relevance
D
efense and intelligence missions
are moving increasingly into the
information domain,” says Kate
Maxwell, CTO, Defense & Intelligence for
Microsoft Worldwide Public Sector. It’s
a radical shift from what Maxwell calls
“kinetics”, which remain a threat, but even
traditional defense benefits from the
advances in data science and connectivity.
“Information is helping our defense
customers get ahead of their adversaries,”
Maxwell explains. “Cloud computing
enables secure information sharing across
services, domains, and the allied community- all the way from headquarters to the
tactical edge, to that soldier at a forward-
deployed location. And once that level
of interoperability is achieved, we help
our customers figure out how to turn raw
data into insights. That's a big leap that
is facilitated by capabilities like artificial
intelligence, machine learning and high
performance computing. Raw data is one
thing, but how do we get to insights and
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