AWS Summit: Inside Air Force’s Hybrid Cloud Environment Driving Supply Chain Insights
John York, Cyber Ambassador, Air Force Sustainment Center; and Josh Thompson, Enterprise Architect, Air Force Sustainment Center

The Air Force Sustainment Center is modernizing supply chain and logistics operations with cloud. Having an efficiently running supply chain and manufacturing operations for supplies and weapons systems is critical to national security.
Leaders from the center, Cyber Ambassador John York and Enterprise Architect Josh Thompson, highlight at AWS Summit some of their priorities around cloud and hybrid cloud. They also detail how developments in the Technology Hosting Environment for NextGen Automation (ATHENA) program is driving cost savings and improving insight into disparate sensors and data hubs for the service.
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