Army's Private Cloud Goal Is Praiseworthy but Problematic

摘要

On June 25, 2010, the Army issued a request for pro-posals for the migration of information technolo- gies into a cloud environ- ment. A statement of work defines this as the "Army's Private Cloud." The contract reportedly could total $249 million over five years, or an average of $50 million per year. When one compares the proposed spending with the Army's fiscal year 2009 information technology budget of $7.8 billion, the project accounts for only 0.6 percent of the Army's budget. That is a modest start for moving in the direction in which commercial firms already are progressing at an accelerated pace.