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By   Brad D. Williams on April 26, 2021 at 2:13 PM WASHINGTON: DISA is developing capabilities to deliver the speed that military leaders say could provide the US with a decisive advantage in future warfare. The speed in this case relates to how quickly warfighters and combat support services can tap resources in the DoD cloud. Some early pilots have reduced the cloud deployment time for mission applications from more than a year to several hours. Leading the way is DISA’s Cloud Computing ...

Apr 27, 2021 The Defense Department launched the Commercial Virtual Remote environment to accommodate telework during the COVID-19 pandemic. It 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 employees have embraced the tools and the silo-spanning interactions they enable, but CVR was always intended to be a temporary fix. Therefore, the Defense Information Systems Agency is wo...

Apr 27, 2021 During the pandemic, the Defense Department’s Commercial Virtual Remote quickly became the largest Microsoft Teams deployment in the world, bringing departmentwide collaboration tools to DOD. While employees embraced the platform, CVR was always intended to be a temporary fix. Now, the Defense Information Systems Agency is working hard to ensure that hard-won collaboration tools and practices don’t disappear when CVR sunsets in July. According to Les Benito, director of operati...

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...

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 ...

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...