The Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Office is set to be in full swing by March, said the service’s chief information officer, following the force’s data strategy push to modernize and safeguard its networks against great-power competitors. Last year, more than $730 million in reallocated funds — dug up through curtailing other programs during “night court” […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency has been offering “milDrive,” a cloud-based storage solution for desktop users, for nearly a year. The cloud service already has about 18,000 users across 20 organizations, the program manager said. “There’s quite a large user base in the queue right now that’s interested, and we are currently piloting with and […]

The F-35’s infamously troublesome onboard computer suite will be getting completely replaced in the next two years, a top Pentagon official said on Tuesday. Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II, better known as the Joint Strike Fighter, is no stranger to failures and faulty designs. It’s limited by the weather and even in speed, it’s had […]

The lawsuit filed by Amazon challenging a $10 billion US military cloud computing contract awarded to Microsoft will not delay implementation of the project, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday. Amazon has alleged that President Donald Trump abused the power of his office to deny the company the massive contract in late October. “We will […]

DefenceTalkSAN FRANCISCO: Amazon chief Jeff Bezos on Monday defended the company’s bid for a major Pentagon cloud computing contract, saying it was important to support US defense efforts even if unpopular. “This is a great country and it does need to be defended,” Bezos said onstage during a question-and-answer session at the Wired 25th Anniversary […]https://www.defencetalk.com/bezos-defends-amazon-effort-for-pentagon-cloud-project-71900/

DefenceTalkDigitalGlobe, Inc. (DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery and geospatial solutions, today announced an agreement to provide another innovative commercial customer with access to its Geospatial Big Data (GBD) platform, paving the way for new analytic products serving the insurance, forestry, oil and gas, and mining industries. DigitalGlobe’s cloud-based GBD offering is […]https://www.defencetalk.com/digitalglobe-geospatial-big-data-platform-enabling-new-commercial-cloud-solutions-62776/

DefenceTalkThe Army has started migrating all its enterprise applications and systems to designated core data centers as directed by Under Secretary of the Army Brad R. Carson in a June memo. Migration must be complete by the end of fiscal year 2018. Carson’s memo is the first step to establish policy and procedures that will […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-enterprise-apps-must-move-to-core-data-centers-60112/

DefenceTalkEighteen months ago, the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command began migrating education content to the dotcom cloud, a commercially operated bank of servers. This is a significant step for several reasons. The Army is currently a Common Access Card-enabled, Windows-based devices operating environment. That means Soldiers can’t access much of the training and education […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-moving-education-content-to-cloud-for-better-access-60050/

DefenceTalkA US federal judge has reinstated a CIA cloud computing contract with Amazon, rejecting a challenge from IBM, according to court documents released Tuesday. Judge Thomas Wheeler of the Federal Court of Claims said in a notice posted by the court that Amazon Web Services’ is “restored” and that a “corrective action stay is lifted.” […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-court-sides-with-amazon-on-cia-cloud-contract-49324/

DefenceTalkThis memo stipulates that the DON must virtualize all current servers and server-based systems/applications. The process of virtualization will allow multiple operating systems and applications to be run on a single physical server, thus reducing operational costs and improving flexibility within the existing information technology infrastructure. To achieve operational cost reductions and improve flexibility in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/navy-rolls-out-server-system-and-application-virtualization-plan-48638/