Akamai has been a trusted partner for the U.S. Army for nearly a decade, delivering secure and compliant solutions to Army programs. Our services enhance identity management and authentication, ensuring operational continuity and security across various Army environments.
Key takeaways
- Decade-long partnership: Akamai’s long-standing collaboration with the U.S. Army has been crucial in maintaining soldier connectivity, information access, and protection across various mission environments.
- Tactical ICAM for PEO C3N: Akamai’s authentication solutions for PEO C3N ensure that soldiers remain connected in contested, degraded, or denied environments with limited or unstable communications.
- Zero-downtime migration for EAMS-A. Akamai has maintained more than 2 million daily authentications across thousands of Army applications, ensuring that soldiers and commanders can focus on their mission without being hindered by login issues.
- Akamai Defense Edge is set to revolutionize the Army’s future cloud and cyber posture by combining DoD-grade security with a global edge footprint, ensuring high-speed, secure access to applications and data in both CONUS and OCONUS theaters without adding latency or increasing costs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Akamai’s Tactical ICAM for PEO C3N is specifically designed to handle denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) environments. It ensures that soldiers can access mission systems even in contested or degraded conditions, thereby reducing the risk to soldiers and enhancing mission effectiveness.
The zero-downtime migration for the Army Enterprise Access Management System (EAMS-A) maintained uninterrupted access to more than 2 million daily authentications across thousands of Army applications, reducing operational risk during modernization and allowing soldiers and commanders to focus on their mission.
Akamai Defense Edge, set to launch in 2026, combines DoD-grade security with a global edge footprint. It includes 4,400+ edge locations for low-latency content delivery, a Zero Trust architecture integrated with NIPRNet, and cost optimization through intelligent edge caching, all designed to meet the future cloud and cyber posture needs of the U.S. Army.
Akamai’s Zero Trust and ICAM solutions deliver attribute-based access control, continuous authentication, and automated API discovery, ensuring secure, identity-based access that works from enterprise headquarters to contested and disconnected battlefields.