2.5a Expo Product Brief: Micro Focus - Defence End to End Monitoring and Reporting. "From the Aerial to the Core"
Tracks
Track 1
| Wednesday, November 11, 2020 |
| 1:30 PM - 2:25 PM |
| Sponsored By: |
Speaker
Mr David Lewis
Account Executive
Micro Focus
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Abstract
Aircraft, ships, submarines and land mission operations require enabling ICT platforms and methodologies to provide overwhelming warfighting capability.
In a highly complex environment such as the battlespace, multi-disciplined teams with deep subject matter expertise have become increasingly distributed. They are expected to work at speed providing new capability, including applications and data to give increasingly improved insights or to identify and remedy operational issues as they arise. This extends further with military componentry akin to the “Internet of Things” technologies, with multi-sensors feeding information into distributed and central hubs.
Solutions are required to monitor and report on all aspects of the ICT environment from the “Aerial” on the ship or the Armoured Personnel Carrier to Battlefield HQ and through to the Data Centre at the “Core.” Employing built-in analytics provides meaningful and relevant situational awareness at high speed and in real time; creating insight and significantly accelerating decision making.
Continuous monitoring and management of capabilities will provide the required mission services, their systems, their processes, the integrations and the people functions based on roles and responsibilities.
Micro Focus currently provides the Australian Department of Defence (DoD) with capability for their ICT Operations, ICT Service Desk, Application Testing and Security centres. The integrated solutions enable the DoD to build, operate, secure, and analyse their end-to-end environment. They bridge the gap between existing and emerging technologies which in turn means that the DoD can deliver faster and with reduced risk.
In a highly complex environment such as the battlespace, multi-disciplined teams with deep subject matter expertise have become increasingly distributed. They are expected to work at speed providing new capability, including applications and data to give increasingly improved insights or to identify and remedy operational issues as they arise. This extends further with military componentry akin to the “Internet of Things” technologies, with multi-sensors feeding information into distributed and central hubs.
Solutions are required to monitor and report on all aspects of the ICT environment from the “Aerial” on the ship or the Armoured Personnel Carrier to Battlefield HQ and through to the Data Centre at the “Core.” Employing built-in analytics provides meaningful and relevant situational awareness at high speed and in real time; creating insight and significantly accelerating decision making.
Continuous monitoring and management of capabilities will provide the required mission services, their systems, their processes, the integrations and the people functions based on roles and responsibilities.
Micro Focus currently provides the Australian Department of Defence (DoD) with capability for their ICT Operations, ICT Service Desk, Application Testing and Security centres. The integrated solutions enable the DoD to build, operate, secure, and analyse their end-to-end environment. They bridge the gap between existing and emerging technologies which in turn means that the DoD can deliver faster and with reduced risk.
Biography
David Lewis currently serves as an Account Executive for Micro Focus. In this role, David is responsible for strategy execution, leadership, and innovation management of the Micro Focus portfolio for the “Protect Australia” sector. The accounts include the Department of Defence, Intelligence Community (IC) and Homeland Security.
David’s experience in the provision of technology solutions has crossed a range of business sectors, from oil exploration data collection and processing in the Middle East; to implementing the UK’s en-route Air Traffic Management system through providing infrastructure and services to Defence and the IC in Britain and Australia.
During his 14 year career at Hewlett Packard, David was a key part of the team operating in the secure Government sector, from providing high-end compute and storage in one of the most complex, secret IT organisations in the UK to provisioning a cross-IC Service Management rollout, eventuating in supporting the UK Government’s Counter Terrorism Strategy. David was privileged to be personally thanked by the UK Prime Minister for his efforts.
David was actively engaged with the $multi-billion UK Ministry of Defence Future Logistics Information Services (FLIS) programme; provisioning hardware, software and services to Boeing, the prime contractor. The programme transformed the Defence logistics support chain and included integrating more than 200 software applications.
Since 2011, David has been based in Australia and during that time has worked for HP, Dell Technologies and currently, Micro Focus. Micro Focus supports the Defence Service Management System (DSMS), providing an integrated ICT service capability enabling the monitoring of all systems from the “aerial to the core”, i.e. from a ship, sub or APV to the Data Centre. This is providing Defence with insight to their business services, applications and infrastructure that they have never had in the past.
David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brighton University and a second degree in Geophysics.
