Case Study: Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO) achieves 20% reduced operations costs and faster mission-critical data delivery to protect warfighters with Cloudera

JIDO protecting warfighters on the battlefield

The Joint Improvised‑Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO) is a U.S. Department of Defense combat support agency that helps protect warfighters by countering improvised threats. JIDO’s work depends on rapid access to and analysis of global data, but a legacy, hand‑assembled data stack forced teams to spend most of their time on maintenance rather than on delivering timely insights from roughly 1,000 disparate data feeds.

JIDO implemented Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) to centralize and modernize its data environment, cutting operations and management costs by 20% and consolidating those feeds. The platform freed staff to focus on mission‑oriented innovation—integrating HDP into CI/CD, enabling next‑generation analytics, AI/ML (including GPU use), and faster dissemination of actionable intelligence to warfighters for improved battlefield decision‑making.

The Joint Improvised Threat Defeat Organization

Leo Garciga

Chief Technology Officer