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‘A light bulb moment’: US, Canada achieve ‘vital’ federated ICAM connection through joint pilot

‘A light bulb moment’: US, Canada achieve ‘vital’ federated ICAM connection through joint pilot

NATO EDGE 2024 — At a time when leaders from NATO countries and their allies are striving to share more data more securely, the Pentagon and the Canadian Armed Forces announced that they achieved federated identity, credential and access management (ICAM) connection between their armed forces in a joint pilot program. 

It’s a relatively small step, but Ross Ermel, the defense chief digital officer for the Canadian Armed Forces said this week that when he and his team “took this to the warfighting use case — I’ll just keep it general for now — and they realized what they could do now that they could log on and share, eyes were open. It was a light bulb moment.”

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 December 05, 2024