- Efficient IT Solutions for the Modern Enterprise
The Sea Vision project, sponsored by the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) Intelligence and Communications Networks, undertook a critical mission to enhance the United States Navy's (USN) maritime domain awareness (MDA) capabilities. The project's primary goal was to develop and support SeaVision 2.0, a maritime information web tool, within the AWS cloud environment. The USN faced challenges such as a lack of strategic vision, siloed IT operations, and slow product deployment. To tackle these issues, the Vinsys Team first ran the discovery workshop leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool to assess the DoT journey and identify key maturity gaps. The team built a transformation roadmap based on AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). This strategy included strengthening security, promoting collaboration, accelerating innovation, optimizing costs, and enhancing efficiency.
To mature the strategy and encourage collaboration among teams, we used Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) for container orchestration, and Amazon RDS and DynamoDB for database services. Services like Amazon SQS, SNS, and Kinesis were used for event-driven and data-streaming capabilities. Application Load Balancers (ALB) and Amazon Route 53 played crucial roles in managing traffic, and Amazon Kinesis facilitated workload discovery. AWS CloudWatch was employed to monitor operational health across multiple AWS accounts, ensuring security and reliability. AWS Control Tower played a critical role in simplifying account provisioning and management, while AWS Cognito was chosen for unified identity and access management of web and mobile applications.
As a result, the US Navy significantly improved its security posture, reduced product deployment time, achieved substantial cost savings, and established a more efficient development process. SeaVision 2.0 on AWS provided the US Navy with enhanced situational awareness and security, marking a successful transformation that serves as a blueprint for organizations considering cloud adoption.
