Lt. Col. John Hall, DISA's point man on the Pentagon's massive cloud project, told Breaking Defense that having all four cloud providers at Impact Level-6 helps prevent vendor lock and keeps the companies "honest."
The DAF’s adoption of the Halo software comes after it underwent a trial of Hypori’s Workspace Anywhere program, which ended in March.
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
President of Microsoft Federal Rick Wagner has "decided to leave the company," a spokesman confirmed to Breaking Defense.
Satellite communications and space domain awareness are two key priorities for the ADF's new(ish) Space Command.
In an exclusive interview, Lockheed’s head of 5G programs described a first demonstration in December, in which Lockheed and Microsoft connected commercial 5G with military datalinks such as Link 16 for simulated missions.
The full constellation of next-gen O3b mPower satellites is expected to be on-orbit by 2023, said SES CEO Steve Collar.
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
Addressing climate change, and setting norms of behavior are among the focus areas for Biden administration space policy.
DISA, using automation, is reducing the time it takes to deploy mission applications in DoD cloud from a year, months, or weeks to hours.
For DoD multi- and hybrid-cloud environments, the ability to execute continuous Authority to Operate control is important in order to ensure that both cloud infrastructure and cloud-native applications are secure.
“Regardless of the JEDI Cloud litigation outcome, the Department continues to have an urgent, unmet requirement,” reads the Pentagon briefing to members of Congress.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell said SpaceX would, "where it makes sense," help Microsoft Azure Space sell its data services to current and future customers.
Offering Ground-Stations-as-a-Service means customers are only obliged to pay for the amount of time they actually need to use on the station.
While the Defense Department IG said the award to Microsoft was fair, it was not allowed to ask vital questions about pressure from the Trump White House. That could trigger a congressional investigation, one expert told us.
The Pentagon’s request to reconsider narrow technical aspects of the award to Microsoft, Amazon argues, ignores a wide range of fundamental flaws.