The Army Corps of Engineers has over the past two years been well into an initiative to adopt office 365 cloud applications. The progress has not been easy, but it’s been steady, according to officials.
Instead of making the digital journey alone, the Corps has formed partnerships with other agencies going through the same transition: Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency, etc. It has also partnered with Dell to implement the Microsoft technology.
“That was a big part of our ability to go fast and have consistent learning across the Department of Defense to get to that cloud capability,” Greg Garcia, ACE CIO, said on Cloud Insights. “We really had a little bit of a discovery learning over the last maybe say nine months to 12 months, but we’ve worked with our partners on this.”
ACE operated primarily on its own networks until this initiative started and Garcia said it was a learning curve to go from a private network to a joint Defense network and then work through the cloud access points and commercial vendors. He said the partnerships help to ensure that the change is timely and secure.
Forming partnerships is nothing new for the…
