Pentagon sets 'aggressive' path to cloud with new steering group

Fedscoop: A recent trip to the West Coast was very eye-opening to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his deputy — it made clear the Pentagon must take “aggressive” steps to embrace emerging, commercial cloud technologies to maintain military dominance.

Citing that trip, Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan issued a recent memo directing the creation of the DOD Cloud Executive Steering Group “to devise and oversee the execution of a strategy to accelerate the adoption of cloud architecture and cloud services, focusing on commercial solutions.”

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