Mission Need

The modern battlefield is dynamic, ever-changing and fast. Advantages may hinge on milliseconds, and decision advantage is short lived. Warfighters must share mission-critical information across Combatant Commands, Services, Agencies, and trusted foreign partners – securely, rapidly, and without friction. Digital communications have always struggled to balance useability, agility, and security, leading to consistent frustration from the warfighter and an inability to ensure information is made available when needed. The legacy model of standing up a new network for each coalition (i.e., Community of Interest (COI)) is outdated, often taking months to deploy and costing millions. Simply stated, Warfighters need global, zero-trust, data-centric collaboration at the speed of need.

Solution

The cloud-based Secret and Below Releasable Environment (SABRE) can achieve in minutes what once took months. Armed with proven mission insights, SAIC partnered with the DoW to deliver a scalable, secure, cloud-native environment purpose-built for agile coalition collaboration. SABRE can spin up new COIs dynamically, securely and at scale, accelerating time to mission readiness and drastically cutting operational overhead. With SABRE, new COIs that once needed months to deploy can be stood up in minutes to hours. SABRE can integrate critical defense cloud environments, secure data pipelines from the Cloud Based Command and Control program, and insights gained from the Project Olympus exercise into data access for end users.

As the prime industry partner for the SABRE program, SAIC worked with the DoW by leading the architecture, implementation, and operational sustainment of the platform, ensuring that only authorized users were able to access critical mission information with built-in protections against cyber threats. SABRE can augment existing and emerging data-centric information domains, legacy systems, and foreign partner networks by serving as the global mission partner environment federation hub, facilitating seamless communications across Combatant Commands, Services, Agencies and other mission partners. This capability can simplify warfighters' access to information, making it more flexible and agile by enabling collaboration in one thread versus multiple threads.

A key component of this approach was the use of a virtual cloud environment which drew from success in Authority to Operate, a DevSecOps tech stack, and secure infrastructure. Users hosted on SABRE collaborated through filesharing, emails, video, voice, and chat features, while federated users leveraged SABRE to work across other connected environments in real-time. This integrated approach allowed for high availability, disaster recovery, seamless scalability, and constant cyber monitoring.

Mission Impact

Legacy cross-domain solutions were slow, expensive, and inflexible. SABRE replaced them with dynamic, secure collaboration environments that can operate at mission speed. SABRE supported a unified operational picture across all domains, which improved situational awareness and enabled faster, more confident decisions. SABRE is more than a technology platform—it can underpin the DoW’s CJADC2-aligned mission partner environment (MPE) framework. SABRE delivered secure collaboration at mission speed, built on the backbone of trusted enterprise investments that are already deployed and proven.