'DARPA, DOD, and Service partners funded many of those ideas to program completion. 'I had the opportunity to propose several ideas I was passionate about at DARPA,' she said. 'That's what we're looking at in space if we support infrastructure near the moon, or operate a satellite beyond the moon, or even in geosynchronous orbit, what is the best way to develop models on the ground that can enable edge compute applications far away and disconnected from the rest of the world? What are those applications, and can they be updated? How can multiple satellite work together?' 'In remote areas, a small device can be enabled to perform work required with minimal reach back to big compute,' she said. Instead, computing at the edge means satellites and service members will need to take that kind of computing power along with them. 'In space, like Special Forces deployed to a place without connectivity, there isn't necessarily reach-back or timely reach-back to computing resources normally available,' she said. At-the-edge computing, she said, is how those who are in space - and those in the field, far from reliable connectivity - will have access to the powerful computing they will need when communications are hampered by remoteness and distance-related delays.

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