>>from around the globe. It's the queue with digital coverage of AWS Public sector online brought to you by Amazon Web services. Everyone welcome back to the Cube's virtual coverage of AWS Public sector online summit, which is also virtual. I'm John Furrier, host of the Cube, with a great interview. He remotely Jennifer Cronus, who's the general manager with the D. O. D. Account for Amazon Web services. Jennifer, welcome to the Cube, and great to have you over the phone. I know we couldn't get the remote video cause location, but glad to have you via your voice. Thanks for joining us. >>Well, thank you very much, John. Thanks for the opportunity here >>to the Department of Defense. Big part of the conversation over the past couple of years, One of many examples of the agencies modernizing. And here at the public sector summit virtual on line. One of your customers, the Navy with their air p is featured. Yes, this is really kind of encapsulate. It's kind of this modernization of the public sector. So tell us about what they're doing and their journey. >>Sure, Absolutely. So ah, maybe er P, which is Navy enterprise resource planning is the department of the Navy's financial system of record. It's built on S AP, and it provides financial acquisition and my management information to maybe commands and Navy leadership. Essentially keep the Navy running and to increase the effectiveness and the efficiency of baby support warfighter. It handles about $70 billion in financial transactions each year and has over 72,000 users across six Navy commands. Um, and they checked the number of users to double over the next five years. So essentially, you know, this program was in a situation where their on premises infrastructure was end of life. They were facing an expensive tech upgrade in 2019. They had infrastructure that was hard to steal and prone to system outages. Data Analytics for too slow to enable decision making, and users actually referred to it as a fragile system. And so, uh, the Navy made the decision last year to migrate the Europe E system to AWS Cloud along with S AP and S two to s AP National Security Services. So it's a great use case for a government organization modernizing in the cloud, and we're really happy to have them speaking at something this year. >>Now, was this a new move for the Navy to move to the cloud? Actually, has a lot of people are end life in their data center? Certainly seeing in public sector from education to modernize. So is this a new move for them? And what kind of information does this effect? I mean, ASAP is kind of like, Is it, like just financial data as an operational data? What is some of the What's the move about it Was that new? And what kind of data is impacted? >>Sure. Yeah, well, the Navy actually issued a Cloud First Policy in November of 2017. So they've been at it for a while, moving lots of different systems of different sizes and shapes to the cloud. But this migration really marked the first significant enterprise business system for the Navy to move to the actually the largest business system. My migrate to the cloud across D o D. Today to date. And so, essentially, what maybe Air P does is it modernizes and standardizes Navy business operation. So everything think about from time keeping to ordering missile and radar components for Navy weapon system. So it's really a comprehensive system. And, as I said, the migration to AWS govcloud marks the Navy's largest cloud migration to date. And so this essentially puts the movement and documentation of some $70 billion worth of parts of goods into one accessible space so the information can be shared, analyzed and protected more uniformly. And what's really exciting about this and you'll hear from the Navy at Summit is that they were actually able to complete this migration in just under 10 months, which was nearly half the time it was originally expected to take different sizing complexity. So it's a really, really great spring. >>That's huge numbers. I mean, they used to be years. Well, that was the minicomputer. I'm old enough to remember like, Oh, it's gonna be a two year process. Um, 10 months, pretty spectacular. I got to ask, What is some of the benefits that they're seeing in the cloud? Is that it? Has it changed the roles and responsibilities? What's what's some of the impact that they're seeing expecting to see quickly? >>Yeah, I'd say, you know, there's been a really big impact to the Navy across probably four different areas. One is in decision making. Also better customer experience improves security and then disaster recovery. So we just kind of dive into each of those a little bit. So, you know, moving the system to the cloud has really allowed the Navy make more timely and informed decisions, as well as to conduct advanced analytics that they weren't able to do as efficiently in the past. So as an example, pulling financial reports and using advanced analytics on their own from system used to take them around 20 hours. And now ah, maybe your API is able to all these ports in less than four hours, obviously allowing them to run the reports for frequently and more efficiently. And so this is obviously lead to an overall better customer experience enhance decision making, and they've also been able to deploy their first self service business intelligence capabilities. So to put the hat, you know, the capability, Ah, using these advanced analytics in the hands of the actual users, they've also experienced improve security. You know, we talk a lot about the security benefits of migrating to the cloud, but it's given them of the opportunity to increase their data protection because now there's only one based as a. We have data to protect instead of multiple across a whole host of your traditional computing hardware. And then finally, they've implemented a really true disaster recovery system by implementing a dual strategy by putting data in both our AWS about East and govcloud West. They were the first to the Navy to do those to provide them with true disaster become >>so full govcloud edge piece. So that brings up the question around. And I love all this tactical edge military kind of D o d. Thinking the agility makes total sense. Been following that for a couple of years now, is this business side of it that the business operations Or is there a tactical edge military component here both. Or is that next ahead for the Navy? >>Yeah. You know, I think there will ultimately both You know that the Navy's big challenge right now is audit readiness. So what they're focusing on next is migrating all of these financial systems into one General ledger for audit readiness, which has never been done before. I think you know, audit readiness press. The the D has really been problematic. So the next thing that they're focusing on in their journey is not only consolidating to one financial ledger, but also to bring on new users from working capital fund commands across the Navy into this one platform that is secure and stable, more fragile system that was previously in place. So we expect over time, once all of the systems migrate, that maybe your API is going to double in size, have more users, and the infrastructure is already going to be in place. Um, we are seeing use of all of the tactical edge abilities in other parts of the Navy. Really exciting programs for the Navy is making use of our snowball and snowball edge capabilities. And, uh, maybe your key that that this follows part of their migration. >>I saw snow cones out. There was no theme there. So the news Jassy tweeted. You know, it's interesting to see the progression, and you mentioned the audit readiness. The pattern of cloud is implementing the business model infrastructure as a service platform as a service and sass, and on the business side, you've got to get that foundational infrastructure audit, readiness, monitoring and then the platform, and then ultimately, the application so a really, you know, indicator that this is happening much faster. So congratulations. But I want to bring that back to now. The d o d. Generally, because this is the big surge infrastructure platform sas. Um, other sessions at the Public sector summit here on the D. O. D is the cybersecurity maturity model, which gets into this notion of base lining at foundation and build on top. What is this all about? The CME EMC. What does it mean? >>Yeah, well, I'll tell you, you know, I think the most people know that are U S defense industrial base of what we call the Dev has experienced and continues to experience an increasing number of cyber attacks. So every year, the loss of sensitive information and an election property across the United States, billions each year. And really, it's our national security. And there's many examples for weapons systems and sensitive information has been compromised. The F 35 Joint Strike Fighter C 17 the Empty Nine Reaper. All of these programs have unfortunately, experience some some loss of sensitive information. So to address this, the d o. D. Has put in place, but they all see em and see which is the Cybersecurity Maturity Models certification framework. It's a mouthful, which is really designed to ensure that they did the defense industrial base. And all of the contractors that are part of the Defense Supply Chain network are protecting federal contract information and controlled unclassified information, and that they have the appropriate levels of cyber security in place to protect against advanced, persistent, persistent threats. So in CMC, there are essentially five levels with various processes and practices in each level. And this is a morton not only to us as a company but also to all of our partners and customers. Because with new programs the defense, investor base and supply take, companies will be required to achieve a certain see MNC certification level based on the sensitivity of the programs data. So it's really important initiative for the for the Deal E. And it's really a great way for us to help >>Jennifer. Thanks so much for taking the time to come on the phone. I really appreciate it. I know there's so much going on the D o d Space force Final question real quick for a minute. Take a minute to just share what trends within the d o. D you're watching around this modernization. >>Yeah, well, it has been a really exciting time to be serving our customers in the D. And I would say there's a couple of things that we're really excited about. One is the move to tactical edge that you've talked about using out at the tactical edge. We're really excited about capabilities like the AWS Snowball Edge, which helped Navy Ear Key hybrid. So the cloud more quickly but also, as you mentioned, our AWS cone, which isn't even smaller military grades for edge computing and data transfer device that was just under £5 kids fitness entered mailbox or even a small backpacks. It's a really cool capability for our diode, the warfighters. Another thing. That's what we're really watching. Mostly it's DRDs adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning. So you know, Dear D has really shown that it's pursuing deeper integration of AI and ML into mission critical and business systems for organizations like the Joint Artificial Intelligence. Enter the J and the Army AI task force to help accelerate the use of cloud based AI really improved war fighting abilities And then finally, what I'd say we're really excited about is the fact that D o. D is starting Teoh Bill. New mission critical systems in the cloud born in the cloud, so to speak. Systems and capabilities like a BMS in the airports. Just the Air Force Advanced data management system is being constructed and created as a born in the cloud systems. So we're really, really excited about those things and think that continued adoption at scale of cloud computing The idea is going to ensure that our military and our nation maintain our technological advantages, really deliver on mission critical systems. >>Jennifer, Thanks so much for sharing that insight. General General manager at Amazon Web services handling the Department of Defense Super important transformation efforts going on across the government modernization. Certainly the d o d. Leading the effort. Thank you for your time. This is the Cube's coverage here. I'm John Furrier, your host for AWS Public sector Summit online. It's a cube. Virtual. We're doing the remote interviews and getting all the content and share that with you. Thank you for watching. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah