Lessons from DOD’s bumpy adoption of cloud computing

February 27, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from WashingtonTechnology. Author: Stephanie Meloni.

Don’t expect much speed as the federal government moves toward cloud solutions. At a January AFCEA luncheon, Tim Rudolph, U.S. Air Force senior leader for integrated information capabilities, gave an analogy of how the military services are testing the waters with cloud adoption:

  • The Army is in the water up to its knees.
  • The Air Force is in a car near the edge of the water with a kayak strapped to the roof.
  • The Marine Corps is wading in with a knife in its mouth.
  • And the Navy is digging its own pond.

His tongue-in-cheek comments highlighted the uneven approach the military departments are taking to cloud adoption. The Army is the farthest along, particularly with its move last year of both unclassified and classified email accounts to the DOD Enterprise Email service, hosted by the Defense Information Systems Agency. The Air Force more recently joined the Army in using DEE, although Air Force participation is limited to just unclassified email accounts for the time being…

The Navy and Marine Corps appear to be taking a more cautious approach to using DISA’s enterprise cloud functions, and rely to a greater extent on their own private architectures.The Navy, however, has turned to commercial cloud providers like Amazon Web Services for some of its non-sensitive functions…

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