By GCN Staff Apr 27, 2021 To improve the declining reliability of Marine Corps data transmitted via Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) technology, the Defense Information System Agency’s Cloud Computing Program Office has developed and tested a new technology called CLOAK, or Cloud Layered Obfuscation Application Kit. VSAT uses satellite systems to support high-bandwidth voice, video and data applications such as video conferencing between locations. The military also uses it for the exchange of intelligence and logistics information. Developed in collaboration with the 9th Communication Battalion, CLOAK allows users to split network traffic across multiple transmission paths, then combine that traffic within the cloud environment. This leads to faster and more secure communications. Because the fragmented information is less identifiable in the transmission process, it is more secure and less likely to fall into the wrong hands,