Pentagon sets out two-year plan to scale enterprise cloud offerings, software factories
Summary
BALTIMORE — The Defense Department’s chief information officer has published an updated roadmap detailing the organization’s plans to support continued growth of the Pentagon’s software factory ecosystem and enterprise cloud program. The CIO’s recently released software modernization implementation plan for fiscal 2025 and 2026 marks another call from Pentagon leadership for the entire department to improve delivery of software-based capabilities. Beyond JWCC, the implementation plan calls for the establishment of additional contract options for cloud innovation — specifically geared towards small business and “niche providers” — that can be awarded before the end of fiscal 2026. “How do we start to build the ability for applications and data to scale across that infrastructure in a highly resilient way?” Along with enterprise cloud, another goal within the updated implementation plan focuses on creating a Pentagon-wide software factory ecosystem that fully leverages a DevSecOps approach. The CIO will also work to remove existing processes and red tape that prevents software developers from accessing critical tools and capabilities; increase the number of platforms with continuous authorization to operate (cATO) approvals; and create a DevSecOps reference design for artificial intelligence and software-based automation deployment.