The Pentagon awarded a 10-year, $7.6 billion cloud contract Aug. 29: the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS), a huge contract that hasn\u2019t attracted the attention of the DoD\u2019s far more controversial procurement, known as JEDI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DEOS was awarded to CSRA, an IT solutions and services company, and its contractors Dell and Minburn Technology. The solutions will be built on the Microsoft Office 365 platform. CSRA was acquired by General Dynamics in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The DEOS contract will provide \u201cproductivity tools,\u201d such as filing sharing, email and spreadsheets. The services replace legacy office applications and will provide the DoD with a \u201cstandard cloud-based solution across all military services,\u201d according to the news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDEOS will streamline our use of cloud email and collaborative tools while enhancing cybersecurity and information sharing based on standardized needs and market offerings,” DoD CIO Dana Deasy said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The DoD cloud strategy emphasizes the Pentagon\u2019s reliance on an multicloud, multivendor cloud environment that includes general purpose and fit-for-purpose clouds. The DEOS cloud falls under the fit-for-purpose category, Deasy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“DEOS takes advantage of technical, security and contractual lessons from these ongoing pilots, while military services are leveraging them to assess the readiness of their infrastructure to support migration to DEOS,\u201d said Deasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The contract has a five-year base period, with two two-year options and a one-year option following. The DoD used the General Services Administration IT Schedule 70, which is used for long-term contracts for GSA-approved technology, for the acquisition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c[DEOS] will bring cost savings and help DOD easily share mission-critical information across all military services while enhancing cybersecurity and reducing costs,” said GSA administrator Emily Murphy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The services provided by DEOS will have direct effect on the military services. The Marine Corps deputy director of Command, Control, Communications, and Computers Kenneth Bible said it looks forward to the \u201cpromise and substantial benefits\u201d of the DEOS contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We are hopeful that it will supply the ability to operate within the disconnected, degraded, intermittent and low bandwidth [DDIL] environments that are anticipated in 21st century conflicts,\u201d said Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government is in the process of migrating several systems across federal agencies to the cloud. Earlier this summer, OMB released its Cloud Smart Strategy, that served as guidance for agencies moving applications the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DEOS is one of two massive DoD cloud computing contracts that government and industry have been waiting for the Pentagon to award. The other is the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, better known as JEDI, which is potentially worth $10 billion over 10 years and will serve as the Pentagon\u2019s enterprisewide general services cloud. That contract has been continuously delayed and is currently in federal court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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