Installation Resilience, Now on AWS Marketplace

The infrastructure that runs the mission cannot tell you when it is failing

Every military installation depends on infrastructure that operates quietly in the background: power, water, facilities, and security. When one of those fails, the signal that something is wrong travels slowly. It moves through phone calls and status reports, across teams that each see a different fragment of the picture, until it reaches the leader who has to act. By then, the window to get ahead of the issue has closed.

This is not a resource problem. It is an awareness problem, and it is one that leaders can fix. Heidi Scheppers, former Deputy Director of Air Force Security Forces, put the stakes plainly: “Decision support that arrives after the failure is not decision support. It is incident response.”

The strain is not confined to one installation or one service. The Department of Defense deferred maintenance more than doubled in five years, from $137 billion in fiscal year 2020 to an estimated $285 billion in fiscal year 2025. Infrastructure is degrading faster than it can be maintained, and leaders are asked to assure readiness across an operational environment that cannot report its own condition.

What installation resilience means

Installation resilience is the ability to know the condition of installation infrastructure early enough to act before a failure becomes a mission problem. It rests on one operational picture across domains, so leaders see power, water, facilities, and security in a single view rather than reconstructing the situation from separate reports.

Resilience is predictive, not reactive. It replaces a fix-on-fail posture, where infrastructure is repaired only after it breaks, with early awareness that preserves both uptime and the planning window a commander needs.

The barrier has been the acquisition path, not the technology

Here is the part most people get wrong. The capability to see infrastructure conditions early has existed. What slowed adoption has not been the technology. It was the path to acquiring it. Government procurement is built on trust and relationships, and for good reason. But once a buyer decides to move, a new contract action can add months or even years before anything is deployed. That gap is where good solutions stall. Eric Kanagy, Founder and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of Simplesense, put it directly: “The barrier to warfighter adoption hasn’t been the technology; it’s the acquisition path.”

How installations acquire it through AWS Marketplace

The Simplesense AWS Marketplace Storefront removes the contracting step that has most slowed adoption. Buyers acquire Simplesense offerings through the AWS account and contract vehicles they already hold, using Buy with AWS. Purchases flow through the marketplace and appear on the customer’s existing AWS invoice, and enterprise pricing is available through private offers. The storefront does not replace the relationships and in-person engagement that defense acquisition depends on. It shortens the distance between a decision and a deployment. When a buyer is ready, the path is already in place.

What is available in the Simplesense storefront

The catalog spans the full arc from early awareness to incident response, and every offering integrates across existing infrastructure rather than replacing it:

• ‍Resilience Core™, the foundation that connects control-system data across an installation into one operational picture.‍
• IncidentLink surfaces an incident the moment it starts, so responsebegins on the first signal, not the first phone call.‍
• OTGateway closes security exposure at the building level, wherethreats reach the installation. ‍
• Rehosting brings existing infrastructure into the operationalenvironment without replacing it.‍
• Site Evaluation delivers an on-site assessment of mission-criticalfacilities.‍
• STIG-hardened Amazon Machine Images (Amazon Linux2023 and Ubuntu Pro FIPS 22.04 LTS), configured per DoD policy.

Proof at an operational scale

Simplesense powers the InstallationResilience Operations Command and Control (IROC) program across multiplemilitary bases, a fully operational, accredited, and scaled capability. Theoutcomes are measured, at scale:

~75% fewer communication failures and unexplained activations.

~75% of unnecessary technician dispatches eliminated, with issues resolved remotely.

Up to 60 minutes saved per operator per day on outage investigation and triage.

IROC demonstrates that secure, cross-domain integration measurably increases infrastructure uptime while reducing installation downtime, at operational scale today.

Frequently asked questions

What is installation resilience?

Installation resilience is the ability to know the condition of installation infrastructure early enough to act before a failure affects the mission. It depends on one operational picture across power, water, facilities, and security.

Can defense customers acquire Simplesense through AWS Marketplace using existing contract vehicles?

Yes. Buyers acquire through the AWS account and contract vehicles they already hold, using Buy with AWS, with billing consolidated through their existing AWS invoice.

Does this require replacing existinginfrastructure?

No. Simplesense integrates across existing infrastructure without rip-and-replace, so the installation's timeline stays intact.‍

Is it authorized?

Simplesense operates with an enterprise TypeAuthorized Authority to Operate (ATO) already in place across multiple installations.

How do I find out if it fits my installation?

Start with a high-level fit call to see whereintegrated awareness delivers the fastest gains for your installation. If youare ready to move, you can explore Simplesense offerings directly on the AWS Marketplace Storefront and acquire throughthe AWS account and contract vehicles you already hold.