Army 'well on its way' to first OCONUS cloud in Indo-Pacific - Breaking Defense

The Army is “well on its way” toward implementing its first cloud outside of the US in the Indo-Pacific, a move that will allow the service to integrate cloud services into all aspects of experimentation in the region, according to service’s chief information officer.

The Army wants to deliver tactical cloud capabilities to its Multi-Domain Task Forces in the Indo-Pacific region and at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in Washington state this year as it readies its networks for multi-domain operations.

Army CIO Raj Iyer, who spoke on a panel at the AFCEA Northern Virginia Army IT Day Thursday, said the service is also planning to deliver more cloud capabilities and other technologies, including Low- and Mid-Earth Orbit Satellites, to JBLM in an effort to increase resiliency when exchanging large volumes of data from the “strategic corners” back to the tactical edge.