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In the weeks leading up to the release of the Department of Defense\u2019s multibillion-dollar commercial cloud solicitation, Pentagon leaders dug in for a fight. Officials vowed to move forward with a single-source contract award for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, insisting it\u2019s the best approach for a seamless cloud capability that extends to the battlefield. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve not heard anybody say that a multiple-cloud solution is a better solution for providing that capability to the war fighter, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re saying that based on where technology is today, based on where the offerings of the commercial cloud providers are and based on current acquisition law, the department\u2019s optimal solution is a single-award contract,\u201d Robert Daigle, director of cost analysis and program evaluation at the Pentagon, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But leaders from across the IT sector disagree, with industry groups mounting an offensive aimed at swaying DoD brass \u2014 or at least forcing their hand to reconsider the approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many across the IT community agree it\u2019s likely there could be a drawn-out protest process following the contract award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere used to be a saying that it only costs a first-class stamp to file a protest \u2014 and it doesn\u2019t even cost that anymore when you can file them online,\u201d Dave Mihelcic, former CTO at the Defense Information Systems Agency and now federal chief technology and strategy officer at Juniper Networks, said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen and if the contract is awarded, there\u2019s a high probability there\u2019s going to be a protest against it, and they\u2019ll have to sort out whether that protest has merit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nGlobal communication network concept.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Mihelcic noted that a protracted protest battle could have lasting impact on the actual cloud capability itself, billed as the future go-to vehicle for military data needs for as long as the next decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If there is a significant protest, \u201cdo you try to amend the [request for proposals] or do you just take a step back and look at the actual strategy?\u201d Mihelcic said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOne of the fundamental things industry has said throughout this process is it doesn\u2019t make sense to have a single cloud for a department as large as DoD. That\u2019s not even an RFP issue \u2014 that\u2019s a strategy issue. It\u2019s more fundamental than the RFP itself; it\u2019s going back and rethinking the acquisition strategy and saying, \u2018perhaps a single award doesn\u2019t make sense.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s the point industry has tried to impress upon Pentagon officials, including through a draft RFP feedback process in which private sector comments were met with a perfunctory DoD response of \u201cYour comment has been noted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDeployment of a single cloud conflicts with established best practices and industry trends in the commercial marketplace, as well as current law and regulation, which calls for the award of multiple task or delivery order contracts to the maximum extent practicable,\u201d members of the IT Alliance for Public Sector wrote to congressional leadership. \u201cFurther, the speed of adoption of innovative commercial solutions, like cloud, is facilitated by the use of these best practices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ITAPS and stakeholders from across the IT community have asserted that the Pentagon\u2019s insistence on a single-award contract is at best misguided and, worse, could run afoul of acquisition laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDoD\u2019s cloud acquisition strategy, as outlined in the draft RFP released in early March and affirmed in the second draft released this month, remains designed to facilitate the deployment of a single cloud under this program,\u201d the ITAPS letter stated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor this reason and consistent with the Secretary\u2019s sentiments, we encourage the Department to follow the law, regulations and commercial best practices in this acquisition strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DC-wide battle looms large<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers also have called on DoD officials to prove that they are working within legal requirements and best practices. In the House of Representatives\u2019 final version of the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, lawmakers withheld 50 percent of JEDI funding pending the submission of a justification report detailing the acquisition strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think it deserves some oversight,\u201d Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., said in an April 26 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe included language in the [omnibus appropriations bill] that requires you to submit full justification for executing a single award, not sole-source but single-award contract instead of a multi-cloud approach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nSen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., joined at left by Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, listens as Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 9, 2018. Haspel, a 61-year-old career undercover spy, is a 33-year veteran at the agency in foreign and domestic assignments, and if confirmed, would be the CIA’s first female director. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Pentagon spokesmen said May 7 that a justification report was submitted to Congress that day, but offered no further details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DoD officials \u2014 speaking at a range of press briefings, industry events, Capitol Hill hearings and additional appearances \u2014 have maintained their adherence to federal contracting law and best practices, telling reporters, lawmakers and industry groups alike that the competition remains wide open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEverything that we\u2019ve done, it\u2019s full and open competition. As you can imagine, we know this is sensitive so we\u2019ve been hyper sensitive as we\u2019ve looked at it from every angle, including the legal execution from the contract and how we structured it,\u201d DoD Chief Management Officer Jay Gibson told sister publication Defense News in an interview. \u201cWe feel good that what we\u2019re doing is the right way to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ellen Lord, under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, echoed Gibson\u2019s sentiments in a media roundtable April 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe department has multiple cloud contracts and we will continue to have multiple cloud contracts. We are working with a variety of companies and we want to leverage the entire industrial base,\u201d Lord said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is ample opportunity for everyone to play throughout the department, so I see no focus toward one company whatsoever. We are following typical procedures: We put out [requests for information], [and] we got over 50 responses so that. So we are adhering to good contracting practices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Defense officials also have downplayed the significance of JEDI when it comes to the bigger DoD cloud picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFolks are trying to present this as the Department of Defense moving to a single award for all cloud computing,\u201d Daigle said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis contract, even if we max out the annual spend, represents about 16 percent of our hosting costs currently, which represent about 12 or 13 percent of our overall business system IT costs. So really the amount that we\u2019re talking about here is not the end of history; it\u2019s one cloud contract.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gibson, speaking to reporters at the Pentagon on April 23, emphasized that JEDI is just the first step in a long journey toward achieving the vision of universally available access to data on-demand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf you look at where we are, there is not some silver bullet where you will design something, flip a switch and then it all just happens. So we have to start this process,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know the ultimate end state. We do know a single environment is much better than the federated environment we have. It\u2019s about getting started, getting going and we are very comfortable that this will put us in a much better place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That global access to mission-critical data at the tactical edge is a chief reason for looking toward a single provider, Daigle said. Security is another, and DoD officials don\u2019t want the burden of managing the seams between multiple clouds and multiple data \u201cponds\u201d that would come with multiple providers. Instead, they\u2019re looking to get the military\u2019s widely scattered and heterogeneous data homogenized into a system that can more easily be accessed far and wide by hundreds of thousands of users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then there is the current acquisition system. Giving the example of migrating approximately 133,000 DoD unclassified operating systems, each requiring a roughly three-month task order, it would take more than 400,000 man-months to do that under a multiple-award IDIQ contract, Daigle said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThink about that from the point of view of a war fighter, when we have somebody sitting at a [forward operating base] \u2026 in today\u2019s environment it takes months and months to get access to a server and storage,\u201d Daigle said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the April 26 SASC hearing, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis emphasized to lawmakers the need for expedience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe rush right now is that we have too many data banks that the frontline commander cannot swiftly draw information from,\u201d Mattis said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo what we\u2019ve been looking at now is how do we get faster access to young folks on the front lines, displaying the information they need, not all the information in the world. That\u2019s the driving impetus \u2014 it\u2019s the lethality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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