How the DoD’s future war-fighting needs are shaping cloud vendors’ products 5 hours ago Cloud vendors are coming up with new ideas to provide access for any location, such as aboard a ship. In this picture, a sailor on the amphibious assault ship USS America troubleshoots a server in 2017. (Mass Communication Spc. Vance Hand/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Defense Department’s expectation that future wars will be fought across dispersed, disconnected environments is driving changes to its cloud needs. Industry is preparing for that reality. With the nascent concept of connecting the best sensor from any location with the best shooter in any service, known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control, the defense industrial base is seeing a shift in the Pentagon’s need for tools that people can access from any location.