Cloud Computing

On February 7, the Department of Defense (DoD) awarded REAN Cloud a contract valued at up to $950 million to work with defense agencies to migrate existing applications to commercial cloud solutions. The award is of significant relevance to efforts currently underway in connection with the upcoming DoD Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure—or “JEDI”—procurement. However, the award is also important in a broader context in that it was issued as a follow-on production contract to an “other transaction” (OT) prototype agreement awarded on an expedited basis by DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental organization (DIUx). The award, therefore, reflects DoD’s increased comfort with issuing high-value production contracts following preliminary work with DIUx under OT prototype agreements.
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On July 24, 2015, the Defense Information Security Agency (“DISA”) issued three draft documents (available here for download) concerning the adoption of secure cloud computing systems by the Department of Defense (“DoD”).  DISA is tasked with developing DoD’s security requirements guides for cybersecurity policies, standards, architectures, security controls, and validation procedures.  Here, the just-released, draft documents are: (1) a Security Requirements Guide; (2) a Cloud Access Point Functional Requirements Document; and (3) a Concept of Operations for Cloud Computer Network Defense.  Any comments on these draft documents must be submitted to DISA by August 22, 2015.

Additional information regarding each of these three documents is provided below.
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