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Operational excellence is a must for any military member, with decision-makers needing up-to-date and relevant intelligence to plan and manage an operation. Achieving decision advantage ensures an operation’s decision-makers have the intelligence they need to coordinate operations and use their teams and resources most effectively. As the military aims to achieve decision advantage, decision support systems (DSSs) and secure collaboration tools have become an integral part of these efforts.

Critical infrastructure — including systems vital to energy, water, transportation, communication, healthcare, finance, the military, and more — is the backbone of any nation’s public health, safety, security, and economic stability. As a result of their necessity, these systems are prime targets for sophisticated state-sponsored threat actors, organized cybercrime groups, and even hacktivists interested in drawing the most attention to their cause.

If your organization uses Skype for Business for collaboration, it’s time to start thinking about your next communication platform. On Oct. 15, 2025, Microsoft will stop supporting Skype for Business. As a result, the platform’s performance issues, security vulnerabilities, and other bugs will no longer be fixed. There’s still time to move to a new platform before Skype for Business is no longer supported.

As cyber threats grow in sophistication and frequency, organizations worldwide are grappling with the challenge of safeguarding their systems and data while maintaining operational continuity. Cyber resilience, the ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents, is no longer just a competitive advantage…it’s a critical necessity.

The Mattermost Desktop Client for Windows is now available in the Windows Store, bringing secure, real-time collaboration to teams tackling the most critical challenges of our time. Whether you’re safeguarding national security, managing complex operations in critical infrastructure, or driving innovation in defense and government, your work matters. Mattermost is here to help you do — and protect — the work that matters most with tools that are adaptable, secure, and resilient.

As the cyber threat landscape evolves and regulatory demands increase, the role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is taking center stage. According to one recent report, 100% of Fortune 500 companies and the majority of Global 2000 organizations had a CISO or CISO-equivalent role in 2023, an uptick from 70% in 2018.

Mission-centric IT organizations face complex challenges including siloed communications, the need to balance innovation with regulatory compliance, and a lack of formal governance around IT and cybersecurity.

Modernizing critical defense operations is not just an advantage — it’s a necessity. As defense organizations face increasingly complex threats and operational environments, the need for efficient, secure, and agile collaboration tools has never been more vital. Mattermost provides collaborative workflow solutions that are purpose-built for tactical and operational environments.

Mattermost is excited to announce the release of v10.0, bringing with it a groundbreaking enhancement to our Mattermost Copilot plugin: support for multiple large language models (multi-LLM). This feature, designed to empower mission-critical enterprises, adds a new layer of flexibility, privacy, and control to your AI-driven workflows.

In Mattermost v10.0, accelerate your enterprise workflows and bolster resilience with a collaboration hub that integrates people, processes, and technology for mission-critical work.