Cloud computing

The General Services Administration has plans to launch a version of the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) cloud contract aimed at civilian agencies.

In 2020, DISA will assume responsibility for the vast majority of the IT operations in DoD’s “fourth estate,” leading to major transfers of funding and personnel.

The Court of Federal Claims lifted a stay the Defense Department requested after new evidence of conflicts of interest. Oracle’s bid protest lawsuit is expected to reach a conclusion by July 15.

The 2020 president’s budget request keeps federal IT spending in 2020 about level with 2019. And the Analytical Perspectives on the budget released Monday indicate all is not well.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has been pushing its mission partners toward “app rationalization,” urging them to figure out what they need to operate in the cloud.

The Army, over the next two years, plans to fundamentally reshape the way it delivers IT on its bases with an “as-a-service” delivery model.

The Navy wants vendors to prototype an entirely new network architecture that would give its users more direct pathways to the cloud services.

The Defense Department’s new cloud strategy, unveiled just a month ago, is essentially meaningless until the multiple controversies around its JEDI contract are settled.

Pentagon decides to go ahead with another conflict of interest study. That can’t be good.

Grant Wernick, CEO of Insight Engines, says agencies should do a better job of integrating security on the front end of their cloud discussions.