Just as technology has been constantly changing and evolving, so has DOD’s strategy for the best way to modernize the tools it provides to the warfighters and their business support services. In 2018, the agency released a strategy to use cloud technology, which has been revised over the intervening years to reflect the cancellation of the JEDI contract and the adoption of DOD’s Software Modernization Strategy. The new strategy sets a path for technology and process transformation that uses an enterprise cloud as the way to move to digital and software modernization.

In an effort to coordinate and manage multiple cloud efforts, DOD has moved its Cloud Computing Program Office, which manages many cloud projects, to the Defense Information Systems Agency. That office will also handle the program and contracting for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program, which replaced JEDI.

This event provided guidance on the many types of DOD Cloud contracts, what’s starting up and what’s ending and the best ways to choose the right vehicle. It also looked at the role cloud technology plays in securing data and the growth of “as-a-service” options.

Attendees came away with a better understanding of:
·   The current DOD cloud strategy
·   How the services’ clouds work with DISA clouds
·   Why JADC2 is an important component of DOD clouds
·   The part that AI plays in securing the multi-cloud environment
·   What the JWCC will offer organizations across all levels of security classification