The service branches aren't mandated to use the up-to $9 billion services, but the Army and Navy are getting into the game with some secret-level and wargaming-related programs, according to service documents provided to Breaking Defense.
This year Breaking Defense heard straight from some top network and tech officials in the Pentagon about their ambitious plans.
Sherman said that there is no timeframe for when the department will release a request for information for JWCC 2.0 or when the effort will roll out next year, but added that DoD was “firmly committed to multi-cloud, multi-vendor, and this is what we’re going to be doing going forward.”
DISA Director Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner also provided an update on the Pentagon's sprawling cloud effort, saying 13 task orders have gone out, totaling some $200 million.
A recently released memo encourages for all OSD components and "defense agencies and field activities" to use JWCC "for all available offerings to procure future enterprise cloud computing capabilities and services."
Updating policy related to identity, credentialing and access management, or ICAM, will be a key step when integrating partners into CJADC2, according to a DISA official.
President of Microsoft Federal Rick Wagner has "decided to leave the company," a spokesman confirmed to Breaking Defense.
The Air Force is considering the move as officials say dozens of task orders, secret and otherwise, are already in the JWCC pipeline.
According to a DISA spokesperson, each big-name JWCC vendor received an equal task order, with the value of $3.8 million for some early testing of the concept.
"Now is the time to drive the dramatic change necessary to make cyber threats far more difficult and far more costly for our adversaries," DoD CIO John Sherman told Breaking Defense.
“That’s a capability we really don’t have in the department - an enterprise top secret cloud environment,” DISA's Sharon Woods said.
In an exclusive interview with Breaking Defense, DoD Chief Information Officer John Sherman shares his top priority areas for fiscal 2023.
“I'm not gonna do anything capriciously or just with a sledgehammer here,” DoD CIO John Sherman said, as he seeks to "make sure the government is getting the best value for our dollar and the very best mission outcome."
Set to start this spring, the test is not a requirement for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, but an “independent” experiment by the Pentagon CIO’s Zero Trust office, said director Randy Resnick.