
DISA pursues new engineering and IT partners to enable the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability
A new cloud-enabling information request was posted by DISA’s Hosting and Compute Directorate, which manages the $9B JWCC contract vehicle.
A new cloud-enabling information request was posted by DISA’s Hosting and Compute Directorate, which manages the $9B JWCC contract vehicle.
Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton told lawmakers that DISA is using the workforce reductions to realign how the agency addresses its mission.
DISA’s Thunderdome solution hit all 152 of the Defense Department’s capability outcomes and has achieved advanced levels of zero trust, according to a senior official.
The platform will be deployed in the coming months at Indo-Pacom via DISA’s Joint Operational Edge cloud environment.
DISA will start with the Army and then continue to federate the remaining services before the end of fiscal 2025.
“Hopefully in a helpful way, we’re trying to bound that with the right level of department-wide guidance and instruction that we’ll have out here fairly shortly from the CIO’s office,” Kevin Mulvihill said.
He succeeds Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, who is retiring after a 40-year career.
“We still have applications that run on mainframes that are critical to day-to-day operations, and the people who wrote those are dead,” the chief of cloud services at DISA said.
Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner said JWCC 2.0 will bring faster commercial cloud capability and “greater diversity.”
Members in the House and Senate have proposed in legislation the elevation of Joint Force Headquarters-DOD Information Network to a sub-unified command.