The Pentagon announced the new cloud contract for $8 billion

2018: Publication of preliminary documentation

In April, 2018 the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced the new cloud contract worth $8 billion which will add other multi-billion order. The Pentagon is going to make modern the systems for communications, joint work and ensuring performance, transfers the FedScoop edition.

Management of information systems of the U.S. Department of Defense (   Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA) published preliminary technical specifications to the project under the name Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS). The contractor will need to create "the imperceptible for the user integrated corporate cloud solution which will replace in a root different outdated IT services of DoD, such as voice and video services, joint work, e-mail, content management and data and also office tools".

The Pentagon announced the new cloud contract for $8 billion

DEOS unifies and upgrades the existing corporate IT services of DISA, such as DoD Enterprise Email (DEE), DoD Enterprise Portal Service (DEPS), Defense Collaboration Services (DCS) and other separate opportunities of joint work, voice and video communication within all DoD, the document says.

Want to select one winner of the tender with which the contract will be signed from Management of information systems of the U.S. Department of Defense. It is supposed that 3.15 million employees of the Pentagon through government networks Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNet) and Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) will connect to a new cloud system. In the latter case the cloud provider will be authorized to store the classified information of the Ministry of Defence.

Exact terms of cooperation of the Pentagon with future contractor are not determined yet, as well as volumes of the performed works. It is known only that the first stage of the transaction covers the five-year period, and further the contract can be passed every year within five years.

In preliminary documentation it is noted that DISA will be aims to use a commercial cloud where it is possible in the territory of the USA. "the contractor will need to develop NIPRNet and SIPRNet networks within data centers of the Ministry of Defence in other countries or some regions of the state.

Besides, from the company it will be required "provide the autonomous environment DPCs of DoD which includes necessary infrastructure, hardware both the software and any other additional components necessary for implementation, managements and supports of the CSO environments".

The DEOS project manager Kristen Brown otmecht that the American army and the Ministry of Defence move towards commercial and cloud computing thanks to what activity is optimized, its efficiency increases and expenses are cut down.

By April, 2018 in the Pentagon 500 cloud systems are used or developed in total. Department will accept requests for creation of a cloud of Defense Enterprise Office Solutions till May 7, 2018.

In parallel with this project one more will develop — Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (in more detail here). He also assumes deployment of cloud services which will cover 3.4 million users and 4 million devices. The cost of this order begins with $10 billion.

The Pentagon does not explain how the solutions created within Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure and DEOS will interact among themselves and also with other services. Affirms only that all of them will supplement each other and "will not prevent further contract actions".^[1]

The representative of the Pentagon   Dana Whyte  said that  transfer of IT systems to a cloud will quickly pour out in advantages on fields of military operations as defense structures will have new opportunities for development of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

See Also

• The cloud contract of the Pentagon for $10 billion — development

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