An “Urgent Unmet†National Security Need Going Nowhere
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By Thomas Spoehr
March 11, 2021
Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan had high hopes when he initiated a high profile effort to accelerate the adoption of a department-wide cloud computing system†in September 2017. Cloud computing systems would be “critical to maintaining our military’s technological advantage,†he said.
Yet despite all the urgency and the high-level support, three and a half years later, the solution—the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud program—remains mired in bureaucracy. Our warfighters still cannot reap the benefits of enterprise cloud computing.
With the soon-to-be released Joint Warfighting Concept of All-Domain Operations calling for unprecedented levels of collaboration between services, the need could not be more urgent.
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