Pentagon Plays Catch-Up with Cloud Computing
Grazed from TheFiscalTimes. Author: Timothy R. Homan.
The Defense Department, considered the most technologically advanced agency throughout the federal government, is still playing catch-up with its civilian counterparts in one critical area: cloud computing. Despite accounting for about half of U.S. discretionary spending each year, the Pentagon has been outpaced by civilian agencies in the last five years in issuing contracts for cloud services.
Since 2009, the Defense Department has spent about $750 million on cloud contracts, compared with about $21 billion by other U.S. departments and agencies, analyst Alexander Rossino told C4ISR & Networks. The principal research analyst at Deltek also said that defense spending on cloud services will surge to $2.6 billion in 2018, up from $414 million last year…
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