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TOWARDS A MILITARY CLOUD ENVIRONMENT: THE ILIAS G-CLOUD PROJECT

For many years now, we have witnessed closer relations between industry and the military to better meet the challenges of tomorrow. The driver for defense is to focus resources on the mission rather than the back-office and leverage innovation capability of industry at the highest possible pace. In logistics, the number of PBL cases has been growing significantly over the past decade. Even aspects of operations, such as pilot training and (gate) security are outsourced by several defense organizations.

Another global development is the emerging Cloud for IT. In the end, it is the same theme, answering the question to what extend aspects of IT can be managed in a secure way by external parties so military resources can focus on the mission.

In this article, we will open some paths of reflection on the subject and present the achievements of our G-Cloud project at the Belgian Defense.

ACTUAL STATUS AND DEFENSE REQUIREMENTS FOR A DEFENSE CLOUD

Up until 5 years ago, we were far from imagining the $10 billion Pentagon’s cloud computing JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) contract Amazon and Microsoft are competing for. Information security issues, lack of awareness and knowledge, dependency during the mission…. the reasons for the military to be skeptical about the cloud are multiple.

That said, the military do understand that the main question is not if but how to implement cloud computing. Today, the commercial industry is full of best practices on how to deal with complex and sensitive information that military organizations can leverage.

The DoD Cloud Strategy 2018 is clear: “This effort is a Department priority. As we execute this strategy, we will continue to seek the active participation and commitment of all DoD Components to realize the benefits of cloud as we operate on the 21st century battlefield”

Also the UK MoD and the Australian Government have adopted “a cloud-first approach”.

Some of the many benefits a cloud infrastructure can bring to defense are:

A more efficient and cost-effective data management thanks to the agile nature of the cloud. For example, the storage capacities are dynamically realigned and can help IT staff to automate repetitive tasks, saving time and money with a smaller IT footprint.
A precious tool for data sovereignty either in peacetime or warfare. Indeed, the cloud can enable a secure transfer of sensitive data from a military unit to another instantly and improving the collection, organization, and analysis of critical information.
Since data can be collected, shared and accessible from anywhere and on a variety of devices, cloud computing brings a better situational awareness to units.
A consistent and reliable data infrastructure in contrast to the traditional military siloed systems, facilitating maintenance and standards uniformity across military departments.

SMART. RELIABLE. READY… AT ANY TIME AND FROM ANYWHERE THANKS TO MILITARY CLOUD.

As ILIAS Solutions we always strive to stay ahead of the curve. Our technology team has been working on cloud capabilities for our customers during the past years. We are proud that we currently deliver these capabilities to Belgian Defense. It is our mission to help the military to do more with less. Expanding our portfolio with cloud capabilities and managed services adds to that mission.

SMALL STEPS FOR A RADIANT FUTURE: THE ILIAS G-CLOUD PROJECT AT THE BELGIAN DEFENSE

In this project, we helped Belgian Defense to move their data towards an external data center. This Government data center provided an IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service) hosting solution called the G-Cloud on which the ILIAS Defense Platform is now hosted. We provide the managed services so the Belgian Defense can work in an optimal way with the provided capabilities: full support for operations, deployments, maintenance, warehousing, procurement, supply chain management and budgeting for all Belgian Defense components.

For our team, the G-Cloud project was quite challenging as we faced two major changes: a migration from AIX to Linux and a complete change of infrastructure. Nevertheless, the migration was a success, resulting in a fully operational ILIAS environment running on the national G-Cloud and a plan/documentation for future cloud evolution.

In practice, cloud computing increased the performance of ILIAS for end-users. Also, some background batches now take 5 minutes to be executed instead of 25 minutes on the previous infrastructure.

We always strive to excellence in defense information management software. As such, we acknowledge the advantages of cloud computing, but also understand specific challenges for the military. That’s why we continue to study and invest in the development of enterprise cloud capabilities. As such, we support the management of our customers’ data driven by best practices of both commercial industry and defense.

If you want to know more about the ILIAS Defense Platform and cloud computing in defense do not hesitate to ask for a conversation with one of our experts:

Sources:

https://media.defense.gov/2019/Feb/04/2002085866/-1/-1/1/DOD-CLOUD-STRATEGY.PDF

https://www.c4isrnet.com/it-networks/2018/08/07/the-next-step-for-the-armys-network-the-cloud/

https://www.accenture.com/_acnmedia/PDF-59/Accenture-Defense-Cloud-POV.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/technology/amazon-microsoft-jedi-pentagon.html

SAFE AMMUNITION, IN THE RIGHT PLACE AND AMOUNT THANKS TO HUMS

A few months ago we raised some issues related to how ammunitions and small arms are managed in defense and how the ILIAS platform offers an instrument to support weapons and ammo management.

Since then, we’ve been consistently working on our capabilities to provide a sophisticated product representing the state of the art of ammunition management software. In practice, this is done by combining our logistics platform and our custom “health and usage monitoring system” (ILIAS HUMS) resulting in an end-to-end solution providing safety, quality, and control of ammo.

REDUCING HUMAN ERROR

During the ammunition supply process, failures are often attributed to human errors affecting the safety and quality of ammo and weapons.

Furthermore, these errors can be made at various levels of the ammo supply process.

For example:

determine usability through visual inspection, which causes bad ammunition declared usable (unsafe situation) or good ammunition declared unusable (unnecessary costs)
destruction of ammunition without registration, or the registration disapears.
unawareness of the safety inspections, regulations or ammo storage conditions.
release of blocked lots or wrong equivalent of ammunition.

Having said that, we must not forget that ammunition supply is only half of the story since human errors also affect the return of unused ammunition resulting in 30% of unusable ammunition as you can see below.

Returned ammunition status after visual inspection

As we have shown, human error combined with inherent problems in the supply process can have devastating consequences on the safety, maintenance and accountability of the ammunition or, more radically, in accidents involving the security of military serviceman and woman.

To counter these risks, we truly believe that all the defense organizations should use a technology that supports zero-tolerance in all the phases and actions of ammunition management by reducing human errors as far as possible.

AMMUNITION MANAGEMENT FROM FACTORY TO RETURN CARGO

We think that the combination of a solid Defense Logistics Information System (DLIS) and a Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) technology can provide an appropriate solution to trace and equip the servicemen and women with safe ammunition, in the right place and in the right amount.

Let’s see how it wor

ks:

Ammunition supply process with ILIAS HUMS

As soon as the ammunition arrives at the strategic depot, it is equipped with an ILIAS Smart Sensor that will capture reliable and accurate data throughout the whole supply process.

The Smart Sensor can be embedded in ammunition depot but also in the smallest unit of packing enriching your process with an actual insight on the real storage and usage condition of your ammo. The data are based on indicators such as humidity, shock and temperature, but also geographical position in near real-time thanks to our geofencing feature.

Furthermore, all the returned ammunition is also traceable allowing you to know the real condition of each item in your return cargo instead of the “theoretical” one.

BENEFITS

In a nutshell, our approach guarantees, against a small investment, a trustworthy, condition based and predictable information on your ammunition, but also several benefits that you can see below.

Safety: Enables actual insight in the condition of the ammunition

Zero-tolerance support: Decreases the possibility of human error in ammo management

Readiness: Increases availability and employability of ammunition through near real time overview

Efficiency: Decreases costs through a clear view on quality and expiration of the ammo

Security: Enable end-to-end traceability of weapons and ammunition

f you want to know more about ILIAS HUMS and ammo management do not hesitate to ask for a demonstration:

DEMONSTRATING THE ILIAS I-HUMS SYSTEM FOR THE CV90

BAE Hägglunds and ILIAS Solutions share the same vision on Health and Usage Monitoring systems. Introducing more intelligent health and usage information will increase the added value of an OEM towards their military customers. Currently, both parties have teamed up to demonstrate this added value by creating a valid insight into the correlation between usage and the incurred maintenance. This insight will enable both OEM and the military to take better decisions on availability and maintenance costs.

To keep their customers informed, ILIAS Solutions and BAE demonstrated their I-HUMS Solution during the CV 90 sustainment working group in Örnköldsvik (Sweden).

The purpose of the demonstration was to show the customers that the solution is capable of collecting data with the ILIAS Smart Sensor, securely connect to a predefined access point and transfer the data to a server. Using machine learning, ILIAS Solutions showed it is capable of transforming the data into relevant information to take maintenance decisions.

To achieve this, the demonstration had a representative of all customers (Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Estonia and Finland) to execute a test drive on the BAE test circuit.

ILIAS Solutions showed the attendees how to download the data.

After having the data downloaded, ILIAS Solutions presented the results of the drives. ILIAS Solutions also presented the different usage by the drivers, demonstrating the capability to distinguish between different users. With the ILIAS I-HUMS Solution, BAE has the capability to measure the impact of the usage on the vehicle. Relating the impact to the operational task to perform, BAE could rate the most efficient driver and present the award to Finland.

ILIAS Solutions and BAE showed the capability of their I-HUMS Solution giving their customers insight in the correlation between usage and maintenance.

The customers confirmed their interest in HUMS and appreciated the effort BAE made by teaming up with ILIAS Solutions. The ILS responsible for CV90 at BAE Hägglunds, Anders Lundgren, stated the positive feedback he got and enthusiastically concluded that “Even more than one customer acknowledged to have a positive attitude in taking this further in 2019”. By this, the demonstration exceeded even their expectations.

LOOKING BACK OVER THE ILIAS 2018 USER COMMUNITY MEETING

Just like every year, we were much pleased to welcome our customers and partners on the occasion of the User Community Meeting 2018 (UCM 2018).

TOGETHER EVERYBODY ACHIEVES MORE

This time, the ILIAS User Community Meeting (UCM) was hosted at the Amsterdam Marriot Hotel in the cultural heart of the city. During this meeting, we had the opportunity to brief our community on future plans and recent evolutions of the ILIAS Defense Platform. As in previous years, the UCM was also the perfect occasion to exchange views on the vision and the ambitions of our customers.

One of our focal points was the interactivity with each and every member of the ILIAS Community. To accomplish that, the meetings this year were complemented by special events such as partner presentations and gaming sessions next to social activities.

This edition was particularly fruitful and compelling thanks to the active participation of customers, partners and ILIAS employees at round tables and presentations.

More than ever, this edition helped us to stimulate collaboration and even better understand the needs and challenges of our community.

Finally, the reactions of our customers to new features and products reinforced our resolve to provide the best commercial off-the-shelf software suite dedicated to defense.

Want to know more about our solutions and be part of the community ?

Do not hesitate to contact us!

EFFECTIVE AMMUNITION MANAGEMENT FROM WAREHOUSE TO OPERATION

Weapons and ammunition are as such a material type with a wide diversity in terms of complexity and use, for example, a bullet next to the guided missile. These complex items require a real-time transparency of processes and many other specificities as demonstrated in a recent research report by Rand about supply chain for training ammunition.

Throughout this article, we will raise some issues that we think are major and how the ILIAS platform offers an instrument to support weapons and ammunition management.

COMPLEXITY AND UNIQUE SUPPLY-CLASS PROPERTIES

As we mentioned earlier, management and maintenance can be really complex regarding the nature of the item. To cite a few examples, weapons and ammunition require inspection, preventive maintenance, modifications, assembling and conditioned storage and transport where they are under the constraints of export regulations throughout the supply chain.

Given that complexity, an ERP or any other Defense Logistics Information System needs to cover all of the named specificities for a consistent ammunition management and accurate forecasting of a warehouse necessities.

SAFETY SHORTFALLS

It is undeniable that handling ammunition, weapons and explosives requires a special attention. Also, many procedures and items are potentially hazardous for warehouse and store manager.

Unfortunately, safety responsibilities are not always uniformly designated within military defenses and the harmfulness of some material not well documented which could cause significant damage.

SEVERAL DATABASES AND UNMEASURED COST EFFICIENCY

Complexity also implies the treatment of a huge amount of heterogeneous data, such as types of munitions, serialization, lot number, etc. We noticed that in many cases, the warehouses use different and unconnected databases to capture this data resulting in a non-effective analysis of the workload. Furthermore, this scattered information is acting like a brake now on the measurement of cost efficiency on maintenance, storage or transport of the ammunition.

NO STANDARDIZATION OF WAREHOUSES AND SUPPLY POINTS

The points cited above lead us to a more general observation about the lack of standardization of ammunition warehouses and supply points in the way to capture and treat data. Yet we know that standards and transparency of the information are essential to secure the readiness and efficiency of MOD’s.

RECOMMENDATIONS AND ILIAS CAPABILITIES

Now that the problems have been exposed, let’s have an insight on some of the improvements and see how ILIAS software can definitely help military departments to manage their ammunition from warehouse to operation.

From codification to supply, ILIAS is exclusively made for the military by the military to deal with the diversity, sensitivity and the hazardous characteristics of weapons and ammunition.

Codification and configuration

A very first step would be to capture and treat data into a single integrated system with standardized metrics and codification to allow data transparency and forecast on supplies or maintenance of ammunition and weapon system.

For this purpose, ILIAS Defense platform provides one single reference base for information on the weapons and ammunition based on the NATO codification. Indeed, the NATO Serial Number (NSN) is at the heart of the system and interfaces with NACOMS are provided on a standard basis.

Furthermore, the ILIAS Platform allows managing various item types, matching the diversity of ammunitions and each supporting different material management principles:

Asset, consumable and repairable;
Serialized and non-serialized;
Lot managed;
Assembly or ‘kit’.

The platform also allows uploading of documentation and drawings of weapon and ammunition that can be consulted by any authorized user.

Hazardous material and security

The ILIAS Platform offer trough the “HazMat” module to complete the materiel with specific data on safety and handling allowing authorized users to consult key information on properties and measures in specific circumstances.

The functionality allows producing a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) that accompanies hazardous materials during storage, transport, handling and usage.

This guarantees the correct handling of hazardous materials and assets in order not to endanger Defense personnel the environment.

Inventory, storage and supply

To tackle complexity the MOD’s should procure custom-made software solutions with specific functionalities regarding the ammunition storage and supply.

In this respect, ILIAS includes advanced features like:

Organization of ammo storage by means of physical (on base) and virtual (in mission, deployed) warehouses linked to units and zones.
Tracking of ammunition transportation, including detailed information on personnel and/or tooling and packaging, labels, barcodes or special handling instructions.
The issue method FEFO “First Expired, First out” is applied in order to use and consume in priority the ammunition with the shortest remaining life.
The ILIAS platform provides advanced functionality for replenishment of ammunition; various algorithms are available, using both ‘push’ and ‘pull’ algorithms
In-depth obsolescence management functionality for the phasing-out of expired, defective and obsolete ammunition and weapons, that need to be decommissioned according to well defined procedures.

Maintenance, inspections and assembly

To maintain the diversity of ammunition, ILIAS allows store managers to inspect the safety and the compliance of the items with their technical instructions at regular times (as prescribed in the preventive maintenance and inspection schemes). These schemes are managed in the ILIAS Platform and automatically launch the necessary work orders for technicians and inspectors in due time, based on the usage of the items or time based.

During a mission preparation, specific work orders can also be generated to (de)install equipment (e.g. launchers on the asset), (dis)assemble the required ammunition if applicable (e.g. assembly of A/C bombs) and the mounting on a weapon system.

Training and operations

During training and operation, weapons are used and ammunition is consumed. The usage and consumption triggers the processes in the ILIAS Platform for registration of the disposal and the maintenance of the weapon systems.

Thanks to the setup of the system configuration tree, it is possible to define exactly where the weapons are located, or on which asset they are mounted (e.g. on which A/C) using the ‘asset tracking’ functionality.

Finally, providing guidance and special training within warehouses and supply points will become crucial to improve safety, knowledge sharing and transparency. On this last point, the ILIAS platform allows managing competency and currency of technical personnel in order to guarantee efficient task execution according to procedures.

Features supported by the ILIAS Defense platform

If you want to know more about ILIAS NVO do not hesitate to ask for a demonstration:

Source: Identifying Efficiencies in the Supply Chain for Training Ammunition by RAND

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR900/RR952/RAND_RR952.pdf

F-35 : MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN ILIAS SOLUTIONS AND LOCKHEED MARTIN

After a Memorandum of Understanding in 2015, ILIAS Solutions has recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with Lockheed Martin that comes after almost three years of a fruitful cooperation. This MoA covers the future partnerships if the Belgian governement decides to replace their F-16s by the F-35s.

Jean-Pierre Wilschut, Managing Director of ILIAS Solutions, said: “I am very happy that we signed this MoA today with Lockheed Martin that will extend the relationship between our companies for decades to come. For ILIAS Solutions, strengthening our collaboration with Lockheed Martin will not only support our international growth but also strengthen our product capability”.

Gregory Day, F-35 Belgium Business Development from Lockheed Martin, said: “Lockheed Martin is very excited to strengthen and extend its longstanding relationship with ILIAS Solutions and to benefit from its proven capability to support the sustainment of our customers fleets”

INSIDE THE ILIAS 2017 USER COMMUNITY MEETING

Like every year, we were much pleased to welcome our customers and partners on the occasion of the User Community Meeting 2017 (UCM 2017).

CLOSING THE GAP

This edition took place in Fort Worth (Texas, USA) at the end of September and was a great opportunity to discuss the key directions for the ILIAS Defense Platform. In addition to that, we had the chance to understand our customers challenges even better. Our main goal during this event was to respect diversity while enforcing synergy between our customers.

Compared with last year, this edition highlighted our desire to support our customers in trainings towards our platform improvements to bring excellence in defense information management. With the introduction of the ILIAS Academy and ILIAS NVO, we confirmed the logical continuation of our last year’s commitment to close the gap and manage change as we progress together with our community in building smart solutions.

LARGER THE COMMUNITY, HIGHER THE STAKES

We are proud to see that ILIAS customer base is growing on an ongoing basis. Now, more than ever, our community is at the heart of our concerns along with all of the relative challenges.

The UCM 2017 has opened up new prospects for us and have consolidated our belief and trust in our defense platform and, more importantly, our work and relationship with each and every one of our customers.

Want to know more about our solutions and be part of the community ?

Do not hesitate to contact us!

TOWARDS PREDICTIVE FLEET MAINTENANCE WITH ILIAS NVO

CASE STUDY: DETECTING USAGE ON A COMPACT EXCAVATOR WITH ILIAS NVO TECHNOLOGY

Following our acquisition of NVO (Northern Vehicle Operations), the capability of the ILIAS Defense Platform has significantly increased in the domain of HUMS and Predictive Fleet Management. Thanks to the I-TLS® and I-HUMS® products we can provide smarter solutions for the support of Performance Based Logistics through Intelligent Health and Usage Monitoring Systems. Moreover, ILIAS NVO opens up exciting new prospects for advances in machine learning and predictive maintenance.

This article describes an ILIAS NVO case study where we detect usage on a compact excavator to illustrate the art of the possible of this new capability.

Compact excavators are often rented on an hourly or daily rate. No counters are used, which means that for billing only calendar hours or days are used. For maintenance, the system has an “engine hour” counter, but this gives indicator only when the system is running (idle or driving or operating).

We wanted to introduce other counters for more precise information on the actual use of the machine. One Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensor provides a very cheap way of getting much more usage data.

Business case
For the rental case, a “power by the hour” rate could be more efficient. I.e. the end customer pays for the required usage or wear of the machine and not just for the number of hours it is reserved. This would give a fairer pricing model, since the real cost of running the machine is mostly due to maintenance. This would also give the user an incentive to take care of the machine while using it. It gives a better way to estimate the need for maintenance or to balance out the usage of equipment.

For other cases, a simple ILIAS NVO IMU sensor could give benefits of getting higher fleet availability, lowering operating costs etc. by doing the following:

Monitor machine health and how to predict asset failure (predictive maintenance)
Prevent or detect abuse
Provide data for warranty models
Provide data for fleet management/optimization

All of the above mentioned points can be addressed with a simple and robust IMU.

Proof of concept
For this proof of concept, we wanted to test the data collection and analytic capability of such a system:

“We believe that we can measure how many hours a hammer and tracks / undercarriage have been used on a compact excavator by measuring the vibration pattern”

As proof of concept we wanted to be able to detect the following states:

Engine Off – ID 4001
Idle – low RPM ID 4002
Idle – High RPM ID 4003
Driving – Turtle gear ID 4010
Driving – Rabbit gear ID 4011
Driving – Slalom ID 4012
Hammer – ID 4020

Other states (such as abuse or hard usage) could also be detected.

The Machine Learning approach
A single IMU sensor was installed in the frame of the vehicle. Data was collected with high resolution and high sampling frequency. Data was collected on a small embedded device in the vehicle.

Model creation data
A series of tests with before mentioned states were made. The data was labeled with each state. After data labeling, a decision tree was created using statistical features of the data. The decision tree could then be applied to data collected in real time, on the embedded device.

Test results
A new series of tests were made. This data was again labeled with each state. Data was collected and parsed with the decision tree generated with the model data from before (with fixed data chunk sizes). In the figure below, the results from the algorithms can be seen.

On the top row of bars, the data labels (the truth) are shown, colored. In the next row of bars, the detected states are colored. The bottom graph is a visualization of part of the collected raw data from the ILIAS NVO IMU.

As seen, the colors match with very high precision. Only in the beginning and end of the states there are small errors. This is most likely because of the data labeling (i.e. as the labels were created manually with a stopwatch they may not be completely timely)

Test conclusion
The IMU sensors and embedded device mounted on the Compact Excavator are able to provide data for machine learning and recognition of at least 6 different usage patterns:

ignition
idle
slow driving
fast driving
slalom driving
hammering

This usage information can now be collected, and can support a “power by the hour” agreement between the operator and the OEM or service provider. The operator can request for capacity, and the OEM or service provider can follow-up on actual consumption of this capacity for maintenance and billing purposes.

The whole setup was made within a few hours. Mounting of the system took thirty minutes, calibration and collecting model creation data took an hour. Creating the models took thirty minutes. Testing and validating the system took another hour.

Perspective
This ILIAS NVO IMU sensor and embedded system provide a very easy way of capturing actual and valid usage information on mechanical systems. It can easily detect multiple states. The counters provided could also be summarized and be used to provide the operator with information on when it is time to replace the hammer – before it actually breaks. The time saving from this alone are enough to pay for the system.

If you want to know more about ILIAS NVO do not hesitate to ask for a demonstration:

ILIAS, THE EUROPEAN BACKBONE FOR F-35 SPARE PARTS DISTRIBUTION

ILIAS IS NOW THE EUROPEAN BACKBONE FOR F-35 SPARE PARTS DISTRIBUTION

A few weeks ago, the US Department of Defense has announced that the Netherlands will be responsible for storage, management and shipping of spare parts of over 400 F-35s in Europe. The Royal Netherlands Air Force Logistics Center Woensdrecht (LCW) will be the main responsible for the storage of the spare parts with the participation of more than 70 companies including ILIAS Solutions.

An integrated approach
Being part of OneLogistics, a cooperation of companies in logistics and the driving force behind the project, ILIAS Solutions will be the logistics backbone. Our solutions will be used to carry out several tasks from warehouses and maintenance locations set up, requisition handling, stocks recording to shipment reception.

“The OneLogistics Control Tower system solution is based on the ILIAS system. ILIAS delivers a commercial off-the-shelf software suite to support military commanders in doing more with less.” (Rene de Koning, Co-Founder of OneLogistics)

The equipment storage and maintenance on the F-35 will be handled in an integrated way, ensuring low logistical costs and stocks optimization. It is therefore obvious, that ILIAS Solutions (as an Integrated Defense Logistics Information System) took part in this adventure.

Towards excellence in military logistics
ILIAS Solutions is very proud of this achievement as well as the challenge that this project represents. The crucial role of the logistics platform in the F-35s spare parts management affirms the commitment of ILIAS Solutions to bring excellence in defense information management software and military logistics in Europe, but also elsewhere in the world.

If you want to know more about our solutions do not hesitate to ask for a demonstration:

Source:

http://onelogistics.eu/solution/regional-control-tower/

ILIAS SOLUTIONS WINS THE IFS INNOVATIVE PARTNER OF THE YEAR EMEA AWARD 2017

We have the pleasure to announce that ILIAS Solutions has been recognized as an IFS Innovative Partner of the Year for 2017 by showcasing the Defense Capability Management solution (DCM) build on the IFS EOI technology.

ABOUT ILIAS DEFENSE CAPABILITY MANAGEMENT

DCM consolidates years of best practice and makes this know-how available to the ILIAS User Community. DCM documents the core processes of an integrated Armed Forces’ value chain (the Defense BizMap), linking them to Defense-own roles and responsibilities and making them measurable by (de facto) standard Defense Key Performance Indicators (KPI), e.g. performance metrics defined by USAF, NATO and business models like the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR).

“We found a powerful instrument in IFS EOI to complete our Defense Platform with the ILIAS Defense Capability Management (DCM) layer. DCM drives our agile implementation approach and leaves our customers with a smart performance management instrument after implementation, operational at day one.”

Jean-Pierre Wildschut, Managing Director of ILIAS Solutions

If you want to know more about our Defense Capability Management solution and discover how it helped the Fuerza Aérea de Chile to improve their aircraft availability by 20%, just request for a demonstration.