Status of Cloud Computing in the U.S. Army

Grazed from GovWinNetwork. Author: Alex Rossino.

Cloud work is progressing painfully slowly in the Army, but with the Army Private Cloud (APC2) contracts in place, a maturing Army cloud strategy, and additional work appearing at the Army IT Agency and related to the Distributed Common Ground System, we can expect it to pick up pace in the months and years ahead.

Stories in the trade press provide weekly evidence that federal agencies are in the midst of a government-wide shift toward cloud computing. For example, this week it is HP Enterprise Services which announced that it recently won a $36 million contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs to migrate the VA’s email to a cloud environment. Cloud efforts at one department, however, do not seem to be in the trade press very often…

This department is the U.S. Army. Since awarding nine contracts in December 2011 for the Army Private Cloud (APC2) IDIQ contract vehicle, very little information about cloud efforts in the Army has been released to the public. Even holders of the APC2 contracts are likely wondering when task order competitions are going to begin, as a deep dive into the available data reveals very little APC2 spending so far. The apparent lack of spending might lead us to question the future of cloud computing in the Army. Is the department lagging behind in cloud adoption? If it is, what is the hold up and where does Army cloud computing go from here?…

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