Appian and Raft are partnering to address Indo-Pacific readiness and accelerate US military decision-making. Raft, a leading defense tech company, will work with process orchestration vendor Appian to tackle one of the military’s most urgent operational challenges: sustaining distributed forces across the vast Indo-Pacific.
Together, Raft and Appian are delivering a contested logistics cloud solution to the tactical edge in the Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), a hotly contested global theater.
Appian and Raft address Indo-Pacific readiness – a key US military challenge
The partnership combines Raft’s real-time, edge-ready, autonomous data fusion with Appian’s secure, enterprise-grade process orchestration. The Indo-Pacific environment is defined by strategic competition with China. Even small delays or data gaps can jeopardize mission success – making speed, precision and integration critical, according to a press release.
The new solution integrates fragmented supply chain and operational data into a unified ecosystem to enable faster, informed decision-making from the command center to the tactical edge.
“Warfighting demands don’t wait – and neither can logistics,” said Jason Adolf, VP, global public sector at Appian. “By uniting the Appian Platform – connecting people, systems and artificial intelligence (AI) – with Raft’s real-time autonomous data fusion, we’re equipping INDOPACOM to respond faster and with greater confidence in the world’s most contested battlespace.”
Contested logistics in INDOPACOM is one of the hardest problems the military faces, added Shubhi Mishra, CEO of Raft. “This partnership brings together the best in data fusion and process automation to solve it – fast, at scale and where it matters most.”
Raft’s autonomous data fusion is already deployed across Department of Defense (DoD) programs like US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) providing decision advantage across combatant commands in the US Air Force and US Space Force. The Appian Platform is trusted by the US DoD and every service branch of the US Armed Forces to improve mission critical processes.
Lean Six Sigma enhances combat readiness in US military
Earlier this year, the US Army revealed how Lean Six Sigma is enhancing combat readiness in the military. In the latest iteration of an ongoing partnership between the United States Military Academy West Point and Tobyhanna Army Depot (TYAD) – part of the US Army Communications-Electronics Command – three senior groups of cadets finished Lean Six Sigma Green Belt projects.
The initiative, now in its 14th year, aims to educate cadets about tangible improvements in efficiency and operational readiness while providing them with invaluable exposure to real-world logistics challenges. The three groups operated with members of Team Tobyhanna as they followed the five-step Lean Six Sigma method of Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control (DMAIC).
“By implementing Lean Six Sigma methodologies with measurable objectives, the Capstone projects have delivered tangible improvements in efficiency and operational readiness, while providing the cadets with invaluable exposure to real-world logistics challenges,” said Christopher Musso, TYAD’s director of quality management. “The cadets have not only developed solutions that enhance our current operations, but they have also experienced firsthand the complexity of military industrial processes.”
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