Digital Infrastructure Contested Logistics

Digital Infrastructure Contested Logistics refers to the framework for ensuring critical digital systems remain operational when faced with deliberate disruption, spanning both military operations and civilian infrastructure. The concept addresses how the "three-legged stool" of digital services—transmission (connectivity), processing (computing), and storage (data preservation)—must be designed with resilience principles including multi-modality, geographic distribution, and ruggedization for ensuring digital infrastructure is ready for a wide range of potential threats: kinetic, cyber, electromagnetic, and particle-based. By proactively incorporating these principles into infrastructure design rather than treating them as afterthoughts, organizations can maintain essential capabilities during crises when traditional systems would fail.