The Army will create an enterprise cloud management office before the end of the year, the service\u2019s top IT official said at the Association of the U.S. Army conference Oct. 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The office will offer \u201ccentralized oversight of capability that exists in the cloud,” provide incentives for Army components to move to the cloud and help them migrate to the cloud, Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford, the Army\u2019s chief information officer\/G6 said in an interview with C4ISRNET Oct. 16. With the establishment of the office, the Army also wants to prevent different service entities from buying additional product licenses that the Army has already purchased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThink of the enterprise cloud management office as that central touch point for the Army where app owners can go to gain knowledge about the process of migrating,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cAnd more importantly, what the big Army has already paid for in terms of capabilities like … managed services to move you and common shared services once you\u2019re in the cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The office has been operating provisionally in the last few months, but will be officially established in late November or early December, said Crawford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Within the Pentagon and at the Defense Information Systems Agency, other cloud management offices already exist. But Crawford said that the Army\u2019s cloud management office will provide Army users with more information about what capabilities the service specifically owns, information that the other offices outside the Army can\u2019t provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf you don\u2019t have a centralized location to go, you\u2019re now dealing with the DISA program management office and what you don\u2019t know is [that] in … DISA MilCloud 2.0 we\u2019ve already got some enterprise resourcing in place,\u201d Crawford said. \u201cSo when you move to MilCloud 2.0, don\u2019t pay for this because we\u2019ve already got it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crawford said the formal creation date won\u2019t happen until after an announcement of the office\u2019s leader \u2014 who has already been selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve already have targeted someone with a lot of industry experience and inside the government, [including] work in the services,” Crawford told C4ISRNET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The office is already working on identifying priorities and helping the data and application owners in the field start working with the new team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The office will need to hire contracting talent with experience writing artificial intelligence, machine learning and cloud contracts, he said, as a way to help \u201cbuild capacity\u201d among its contracting talent and to move away from scattered contracting talent across the force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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