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How DISA's Strategy Supports Building Enhanced Resilience with AI and SD WAN

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Adam Clement-Jones describes how AI can protect AI systems from emerging attacks on large language and vector databases.

1. The Government Technology Insider Podcast examines DISA's 2025–2027 strategy for using AI, SD-WAN, and edge computing to strengthen military network resilience. 2. Host Matt Langan interviews Verizon's Jeannie Gentry, DISA Business Development Manager, and Adam Clement-Jones, Verizon Solutions Architect for Defense in EMEA. 3. The core thesis is that AI can improve mission-critical networks through predictive maintenance, threat detection, dynamic routing, and data-driven architecture. 4. Clement-Jones says AI can identify small circuit errors and behavioral changes before a major outage, allowing teams to replace connections in advance. 5. Gentry and Clement-Jones connect SD-WAN with a “single pane of glass” for visibility and dynamic traffic routing across MPLS, broadband, satellite, and wireless networks. 6. Multi-access edge computing processes data closer to drones and autonomous systems, reducing satellite and radio latency before information reaches a central cloud. 7. DISA's network design discussion weighs essential redundancy against unnecessary complexity, cost, resource waste, and slower incident response. 8. Gentry explains that Verizon's SD-WAN product operates in a FedRAMP High certified environment and can support self-healing when AI detects anomalies. 9. The guests distinguish “humans in the loop” from “humans on the loop” and emphasize NIST controls, traceable decisions, and zero trust. 10. Defense technology professionals, network architects, cybersecurity teams, and government contractors.

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