A user can’t just say “write me a Request For Proposals” and get the AI to blurt out a draft, explained Ask Sage founder Nic Chaillan. Instead, the software will guide them through the process step by step – and use multiple AI models to check each others’ work.
The intent is to have one single contract vehicle to support moving Army systems to the cloud, which currently doesn’t exist, that will be quick and cheap, the service's chief information officer said.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
The 2022 version of the Army’s cloud plan includes a new strategic objective that wasn’t mentioned in its previous iteration: implementing a zero trust architecture.
The G-6 is working closely with Raj Iyer, the Army's chief information officer, on "characterizing" some of the legacy data centers the service wants to eventually shut down that are no longer needed.
"It's very, very tempting to continue to spend money on technologies that are 10 years old because we've gotten comfortable with them," Army CIO Raj Iyer said. "That's not what's going to help us fight and win...for the Army of 2030."
"What you’re going to see is a greater level of detail and maturity for not just leveraging commercial cloud computing, but really how that starts to extend into our on-premise locations, how this starts to extend into our tactical locations," Paul Puckett, director of the Army's Enterprise Cloud Management Office said.
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