Distributed by Design: Why Agile Combat Employment Needs One Platform, Not a Dozen
Elastic, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Elastic argues the Air Force's Agile Combat Employment needs one data platform to give remote experts visibility across dispersed sites.
Agile Combat Employment spreads US Air Force aircraft, Airmen and equipment across austere, thinly connected locations where specialists cannot be placed at every site.
Elastic argues that ACE depends on a unified data strategy that gives remote experts visibility into equipment health so they can support cross-utilized Mission Ready Airmen.
Elastic says it unifies, normalizes and correlates heterogeneous data across sites to provide a common operational picture of equipment health, performance and security.
Aggregated data gives local operators situational awareness while letting centralized experts troubleshoot and restore expeditionary support equipment such as generators, fuel systems and communications remotely.