By Navy Petty Officer 2d Class Ignacio D. Perez as well as Terri Moon Cronk DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, March 1, 2018 — The Defense Department volition host an manufacture solar daytime for the ongoing cloud acquisition effort, March 7, inward Arlington, Virginia, primary Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White announced today.
She said manufacture solar daytime reinforces the commitment to attaining the best value for the American people yesteryear emphasizing importance of fair merchandise as well as opened upward competition.
“For years, Congress urged the subdivision to streamline the means nosotros buy, sustain, as well as invest inward capabilities. Under this administration, nosotros are making that reform a reality,” White said. “We accomplish this yesteryear leveraging the conception as well as ingenuity of the individual industry.”
Benefits of Cloud Computing
During a symposium hosted yesteryear the Defense Information Systems Agency inward December, Army Lt. Gen. Alan R. Lynn, a old DISA director, listed the benefits to cloud-based computing.
“You construct a lake of data that yous tin clit from, as well as that’s a big create goodness that helps amongst warfighting,” he said. “If nosotros need [a surely amount] of logistics to larn here, as well as an sum of ammunition to larn there, we’re at in ane lawsuit able to correlate all those dissimilar pieces at ane time, which is real powerful for the warfighter.”
Other benefits include financial savings yesteryear using virtual equipment as well as hiring contractors to create the computing at a cheaper, at-scale rate, Lynn said, as well as data tin locomote moved around the network, making it harder to locomote attacked.
Industry days are events held yesteryear DoD computer program direction offices to acquaint plans for electrical flow or hereafter acquisition to manufacture representatives equally an chance for the regime to expresses its goals, schedule as well as solicit feedback.
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