Mar 16, 2021
The Department of Defense s 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 ensure the collaboration doesn t fade when CVR sunsets in July.
Les Benito, the director of operations for DISA s Cloud Computing Program Office, said that Global Directory is the key. Speaking at FCW and Defense Systems March 10 event on Defense Readiness, Benito explained 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.
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 âfocal pointâ of the Pentagonâs enterprise cloud strategy, may have far-reaching implications. Below, Bloomberg Government summarizes the latest developments in the ongoing legal proceedings against JEDI, and offers an analysis of the cancellationâs potential impact on the DODâs cloud strategy.
Whatâs the Latest In the JEDI Legal Saga?
Defense officials told Congress they may cancel JEDI if Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith agrees to hear arguments from Amazon Web Services Inc. about alleged political interference in the acquisition. Subsequent litigation could drag on for months or years and bring the future of the program into question, accor