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The first five agencies are expected to move to DODNet by the end of fiscal 2021. Along the way, IT personnel at those agencies will become DISA employees as part of efforts to make DISA the single service provider for DOD’s administrative support agencies. Strengthening telework security In its refreshed three-year strategy, DISA stresses cyber defense, cloud and enterprise services. Initiatives also include expanding the availability of secure telework options — such as the Cloud-Based In...

Les Benito, director of operations at DISA’s Cloud Computing Program Office, said Global Directory is the key. He told FCW that the initiative will provide “a cloud-wide identity” as the military services spin up their own Microsoft 365 environments under the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) contract. DISA began developing Global Directory last summer with the goal of augmenting, not replacing, existing identity and access management systems, Benito added. System owners “still...

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Mar 16, 2021 The Department of Defenses Commercial Virtual Remote environment, spun up to accommodate telework in the COVID-19 pandemic, quickly became the largest Microsoft Teams deployment in the world -- and brought department-wide collaboration tools to DOD after years of less-successful attempts. DOD personnel have embraced the tools and the silo-spanning interactions they enable, but CVR was always intended as a temporary fix. So the Defense Information Systems Agency is working hard to ...

Quick Hits Nancy Norton formally retired as head of the Defense Information Systems Agency and command of Joint Forces Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, took over as her successor at a ceremony held Feb. 26. One thing Skinner is inheriting as new DISA director is the Defense Departments Cloud Computing Program Office, recently added to the DISA portfolio. *** A revision to a broad agency announcement from the Defense Advanced Research ...

How the Defense Departments MilCloud 2.0 Effort is Evolving gokturk_06/Shutterstock email Some defense support agencies missed the deadline to complete migrating workloads to the Defense Department’s on-premise, cloud-based infrastructure services offering, according to a Defense Information Systems Agency official.  Per a 2018 memo, Defense agencies and DOD field activities, known as the DAFAs, were required to migrate all workloads to milCloud 2.0 by the end of the four...

February 1, 2021 3:25 PM By Chris Cornillie The Defense Department is considering pulling the plug on its $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud program pending an upcoming decision in federal court, according to a new memorandum to Congress. The decision to cancel JEDI, the “focal point” of the Pentagon’s enterprise cloud strategy, may have far-reaching implications. Below, Bloomberg Government summarizes the latest developments in the ongo...

By Lauren C. Williams Jan 13, 2021 The Defense Information Systems Agency will be absorbing the Defense Department’s Cloud Computing Program Office (CCPO) by the end of January, the agencys director said. DISA will become “the implementation arm for the DOD CIO’s cloud strategy,” said Vice Adm. Nancy Norton, DISA director and commander of the Joint Force Headquarters Department of Defense Information Network. "Whether thats a general-purpose cloud or a fit-for-purpose cloud, all of thos...

The Defense Departments cloud office is moving to the Defense Information Systems Agency later this month in a move that consolidates DODs cloud strategy.

The Defense Information Systems Agency will be absorbing the Defense Department’s Cloud Computing Program Office by the end of January, the agencys director said.