Connecting Allies and Accelerating Action in a Time of Crisis

A Lack of Secure, Unified Collaboration for Partner Nations

In the opening weeks of a fast-moving geopolitical crisis in early 2022, an international coalition of the willing was formed to deliver security assistance to an allied region under attack. The coalition responded quickly, sending tanks, ammunition, medical supplies, and even winter coats, but visibility was limited. Without a shared system, how could teams keep track of what had arrived and where it was needed? How do you operate a tank with instructions in a different language? How do you present a united front when partners don’t even speak the same language?

With lives on the line and operations at risk, more than 32 partner nations needed to synchronize the delivery of training, logistics, equipment, and sustainment support. However, fragmented spreadsheets and unsecured emails were no match for the urgency of the moment. The mission demanded more than speed; it demanded trust, accessibility, and interoperability on a global scale.

Rapidly Deployed Mission Partner Environments

To address this urgent capability gap, a defense-focused digital innovation office, in coordination with a major geographic combatant command, began working toward procuring a solution that would support multinational collaboration without specialized hardware or the need to lay down an entirely new network. Ultimately, ECS answered the call to rapidly implement a scalable, secure digital environment tailored for the mission’s need.

Drawing on its experience of developing and managing secure, unclassified federal partner environments for collaboration, ECS deployed a cloud-native platform designed to operate at mission speed. The environment was provisioned within weeks, offering onboarding in hours without requiring specialized credentials or government-issued hardware, which was essential for accessibility across diverse international users.

Purpose built around trusted commercial tools like Microsoft 365 (including Teams and SharePoint) and Power BI, Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Databricks, and Qlik, the platform was accredited for U.S. CUI and U.K. Official Sensitive standards and featured modular integrations to meet dynamic operational needs, including:

Redefining How Coalition Forces Share, Track, and Act on Critical Information

The platform now supports hundreds of daily users managing over 10,000 live files in a constantly evolving mission environment, as well as:

Mission partners have called the environment a “critical enabler” of operational success, offering speed, security, and interoperability at a scale previously unattainable through traditional systems.