Deliver an Alliance secure and scalable cloud environment, across multiple confidentiality classifications, to serve as the foundation of the Digital Backbone and to enable MDO. These should include provision of: 1. Cloud-based innovation platforms, e.g. NATO Software Factory, to develop/ adopt/ co-create with Industry future capabilities in big data, advanced analytics, and modern software development practices (DevSecOps). Foster innovation through enabling outsourced/insourced – as appropriate – development of cloud native applications that can be rapidly deployed to the warfighters. 2. Federation of cloud services, combined with edge computing that enable resilient, scalable, secure ICT service continuum to connect sensors, actors and effectors, across all domains and multiple Joint Operational Areas, forming an Alliance Combat Cloud, as described in NIAG-D(2022)0003. 3. Support to the Alliance Data Sharing Ecosystem, enabling the storage, registration, and management of quality data and data pipelines (DataOps). This cloud-based platform will also require value-adding data and AI tools and services to its members, e.g. for accessing, labelling, managing, visualising, and exploiting data. 4. Accelerated delivery of the NATO Enterprise Cloud solutions per the Digital Transformation Action Plan and Protected Business Network Capability Programme Plan. 5. Exploration and development of trusted Big Data anonymization/ tokenisation technology allowing for sensitive data to be processed in Commercial Cloud environments, acting as a gap filler for the implementation of Data Centric Security 6. Revised regulatory documents to enable multi-tenancy to host different security COI on the same infrastructure