Cloud

Lawmaker Says Pentagon Cloud Migration Shouldn’t Stumble Because of JEDI Delays

The top lawmaker on the House Armed Services cyber and tech subcommittee also said DOD has to move beyond a focus on migration toward cloud security and optimization.

  • By Mila Jasper

Deputy Defense Secretary Says JEDI Cloud Update Coming Soon

Kathleen Hicks said the department will choose a path forward for enterprise cloud soon.

  • By Mila Jasper

Agencies Embrace the Year of Multicloud

By choice or chance, many agencies are already using multiple cloud technologies but that doesn't mean they have a strategy.

  • By Phil Fuster

DOD's Commercial Virtual Remote Environment Officially Sunsets

The environment for collaboration that supported telework during the pandemic expired.

  • By Mila Jasper

Pentagon Releases Cloud Strategy for Operations Outside U.S.

The strategy emphasizes the need to deploy software quickly and securely to the tactical edge.

  • By Mila Jasper

FBI Seeks a Vendor to Help with Multiyear IT Modernization Project

The Office of the Chief Information Officer is creating a new contract to help with the IT Modernization Initiative and other major efforts.

  • By Aaron Boyd

DHS Faces Rising Costs as Planned Biometrics Cloud Gets Pushed Back

Three years behind schedule, the move from legacy IDENT to the new Amazon-hosted HART system is now slated for the end of 2021.

  • By Aaron Boyd

How the Pandemic Impacted Government’s Cloud Migration Plans: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

While federal, state and local agencies remain firm believers in hybrid environments, they face several obstacles.

  • By Brandon Shopp

Survey: 75% of DOD IT Officials Say They Can Meet Cloud Needs Without JEDI

Most said they are experiencing delays in enterprise cloud migration.

  • By Mila Jasper

Defense Secretary Approves JADC2 Strategy

“Now it's delivery time,” Joint Staff J6 Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall said of the department’s plan for a data-centric warfighting network.

  • By Mila Jasper

Executive Order Hints at FedRAMP Alternatives

The order calls for modernizing the cloud-security program and opens the door for other frameworks to be used for authorization.

  • By Chris Hughes

Judge Chooses Timeline for JEDI Cloud Case

The judge opted for the schedule proposed by Amazon Web Services over the Defense Department’s.

  • By Frank Konkel

Pentagon May Push Forward With JEDI Litigation

Court documents filed May 28 indicate the legal battle over the JEDI cloud contract could stretch into October.

  • By Frank Konkel

COVID-19 Compressed Government’s Digital Transformation Initiatives. Now What? 

With telework here to stay, federal agencies are investing energy and resources into long-term IT infrastructure solutions rather than quick fixes.

  • By Chip George
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Addressing the DOD ‘Disconnected Data’ Battlefield Challenge

Modern-day commanders do not suffer from an information vacuum.

  • By Col. Wade Johnston

If the Pentagon Drops JEDI, Then What?

Defense Department officials say the contract’s enterprisewide capabilities are still needed, but how to fill that need may be different given the department’s changing cloud landscape.

  • By Mila Jasper

GSA Seeks Industry Input on Governmentwide Cloud BPA

Industry has until May 24 to offer feedback.

  • By Frank Konkel

NIST Wants Help Assessing China’s Influence on Emerging Technology Standards

The agency wants insight into how the nation might engage in international standardization activities for artificial intelligence and quantum information science.

  • By Brandi Vincent

Navy Beats Army in First Amazon-Led Competition to Produce the Fastest Self-Driving Race Cars

The program offers a hands-on machine-learning experience—and bragging rights.

  • By Brandi Vincent

Modernizing Container Security Is Essential to Secure Application Development

Most traditional security tools agencies rely on aren’t designed to effectively show what’s going on inside of a container.

  • By John Osborne

Justice Official Recommends Supreme Court Reject Oracle’s JEDI Petition  

Oracle has not won at any level of court despite numerous bid protests against the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract.

  • By Frank Konkel