By: Jessie Bur
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The Pentagon in addition to General Services Administration released a asking for informationOct. 25 for a novel unified collaborative cloud solution that volition unite the entire defence apparatus nether i company contract. The Defense Enterprise Office Solution is the get-go capability laid upward of 3 that the Department of Defense plans to usage to capture its company collaboration in addition to productivity needs. The DEOS capability laid upward needs include a productivity suite, messaging capabilities, content administration systems in addition to collaboration tools. “We operate pretty much inward a disparate environs correct now, in addition to predominantly on-[premises] for these capabilities. So DEOS volition plough over us an chance to tear downwards some of those barriers, posture us for increased interoperability piece taking wages of what the commercial community has to offer,” said Essye Miller, principal deputy to the DoD main data officer, at a press roundtable. “From a practise goodness perspective, for us: real-time upgrades, real-time refresh, real-time access to project design every bit our manufacture partners brand them available to us.”
The contract volition hold upward offered through GSA’s information technology Schedule 70, which Miller said has matured to the bird that was needed to back upward Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router, Secret Internet Protocol Router in addition to tactical environs needs.
“In fact, information technology Schedule lxx is the vehicle GSA itself used to procure its ain cloud-based email, collaboration in addition to productivity solution,” said GSA Administrator Emily Murphy, adding that GSA is committed to working amongst vendors who would desire to suggest through the expedited Schedule lxx FASt Lane program.
“Using information technology Schedule lxx to assist DoD procure an enterprisewide solution for email, productivity in addition to collaboration tools could constitute a baseline for GSA to scale upward this type of solution across the federal regime inward the future.”
In fact, according to Federal CIO Suzette Kent, the DoD solution moves the federal regime frontward on initiatives to usage in addition to procure scalable cloud solutions across agencies.
“When nosotros await at where nosotros were amongst the report to the president across the federal government, in addition to the intent to leverage every bit many mutual solutions for purposes of interoperability, cybersecurity … in addition to the overall efficiency of how nosotros larn subsequently those solutions in addition to the mightiness to proceed those current, this is a actually positive collaboration, in addition to something that we’re incredibly supportive of,” said Kent.
Industry has only over 2 weeks to reply to the RFI, which closes Nov. 9, in addition to the subsequent asking for quotes volition probable hold upward released inward early on 2019, according to officials.
The DoD in addition to General Services Administration also project design to concord manufacture days inward early on Dec 2018 to facilitate communication betwixt regime in addition to manufacture on the best way to approach the contract.
The abide by for the eventual contract is planned for quondam inward the tertiary quarter of 2019, in addition to would probable hold upward laid upward for only about 10 years in addition to $8 billion, according to Murphy, though that let out could modify depending on manufacture input.
The appropriate solution would probable pick out to hold upward certified at FedRAMP Moderate, said Miller.
According to Murphy, GSA in addition to DoD pick out even in addition to then to create upward one's hear whether a single-award or multi-award contract volition best arrange the DoD’s needs — a fighting that proved highly contentious for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract that opened for proposals July 26 — in addition to the RFI asks respondents to supply pros in addition to cons for each option.
But DoD CIO Dana Deasy said that the DEOS computer program is percentage of a Pentagon initiatory to convey defence operations into a multi-cloud in addition to multi-vendor environment.
“Our intentions are to pick out a cloud that tin serve full general role computing needs, every bit good every bit what I pick out coined a term every bit ‘fit-for-purpose’ clouds, which could consist of internal clouds or commercial clouds that pick out a unique represent for purpose,” said Deasy, adding that DEOS would hold upward i such cloud.
Because DEOS is i of 3 collaboration capability sets the way is looking to fulfill, DoD could terminate upward offering a full of 3 contracts inward that space, according to Miller.
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