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 control access within their individual tenancies,” he said, but having a shared identity framework will allow for “a CVR-like experience that users have grown to expect.”
A minimum viable product was tested in the fall, and DISA is now using Global Directory for its DOD365 implementation. In addition, the Army and Navy have adopted it for their DEOS implementations, with the Air Force and the U.S. Southern Command coming on board in April and “others to follow this summer,” Benito
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The Defense Department is embracing the cloud with gusto and isn’t looking back.
Via the Defense Information Systems Agency, DOD’s IT arm, the Pentagon is busy migrating users to cloud-based collaboration and productivity tools under a massive new contract. The multibillion-dollar program, known as the Defense Enterprise Office Solution, is DOD’s effort to get a massive number of users using modern office tools available through the Microsoft 365 platform.
By Lauren C. Williams
Apr 06, 2021
When the pandemic hit, some Defense Department component agencies got off to a rocky start moving their staff and workloads to maximum telework, according to a new report from the DOD inspector general.
In the IG’s survey of nearly 55,000 DOD workers during the early days and months of the pandemic, teleworkers reported issues with spotty network connectivity to DOD component networks, slow network speeds and software malfunctions as the department pivoted to maximum telework.
Some teleworkers (about 14%) struggled to get necessary government-furnished equipment, such as printers, Wi-Fi hotspots or the tools needed for off-site classified work.
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