heart warming to see us draw ever closer to the cyberpunk dystopia of my childhood dreams.
https://thenewstack.io/how-the-u-s-air-force-deployed-kubern...
"“One point for the team was to demonstrate that it could be done,” Chaillan said. He challenged the Air Force and its partners to get Kubernetes up and running on a jet in 45 days, and while that was as difficult as it sounds, the team met the goal and F-16s are now running three concurrent Kubernetes clusters, he said."
However I wouldn't use a civilian made system for this, you're going to spend the rest of the program lifetime correcting security holes.
No the reason is that there are fundamental differences in the risk profile of the civilian and military sector.
Adversaries will insert spies in mission critical projects if they are publicly accessible. Once the main contributors stop maintaining the project the military will have to hire people and train them for maintenance but all the people that can train the replacements have already left. The military has to verify every single line of code every time the code base is updated.
All of these problems don't exist in projects where the full life cycle is taken care of by the military.
The internet of things suffers from the same problems. Once you are dependent on a vendor and that vendor shuts down or cancels a product you're stuck with a lot of paperweights. The vendor is usually not acting in your interest.
Have you heard of the cloud native computing foundation where members have committed to longterm investment in kubernetes development?
Kubernetes is the commoditization of infrastructure layers and serious forward looking companies are member of CNFC.
I assume you are aware of the history of Silicon Valley with defense contractors. And you probably also heard that the FBI approached Paypall for fraud detection capabilities. Hence Peter Thiel's venture Palantir.
ODIN being in the cloud is nothing new - a big pain point with ALIS is the fact that it's cloud based.
OTOH there are many satellites up there whose missions are unknown (to us). Who is to say that some party wouldn't try it, maybe during a geomagnetic storm? Or, maybe some crazy like NK because, hey, got china watching my Six!1!! Of course the orbits, and therefore the owners are known.
This does not need to be 'high tech' in the way some understand rocket science or reentry vehicles to be. Just some crude device which survives start and waiting 'up there', then being ignited later, without the complications of reentry heat and burn.
Last time I did the math though, you'd only get a few tens of kilometers of effect radius with an 20ft shipping container sized device so realistically, EMPs are only deployable using nuclear weapons detonated in the atmosphere.
That's more than a few EMP's...
Of course if they deploy it on a single Digital Ocean droplet then it's a bit more vulnerable.