The Battle for Mon Cala: Getting the Military to Deliver Its Own Tech Solutions
Maj. Gen. Matthew G. Glavy and Brett Goldstein
August 20, 2020
Somewhere in the back of the Defense Digital Service headquarters, among copies of cybersecurity briefs and Star Wars paraphernalia, lies a briefing document several inches thick and 185 slides long, detailing the Marine Corps’ plan to transition its software to the cloud. The document is an artifact of the protracted process that is military software acquisition.
At the Defense Digital Service, we often hear stories about quagmires created by the services when approaching modern software development. The services want to begin building software solutions in commercial cloud environments, but struggle with where to begin. The Defense Department’s first instinct is to pay a vendor to “transfer†current software to the cloud, rather than redirecting talent internally to build applications in a cloud-based environment.
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