Air Force sketches out its vision for the next ‘Cloud One’

The Air Force is previewing its plans for the next iteration of a big-ticket cloud computing contract that will continue efforts to migrate applications and other technology assets into that shared environment.

Dubbed Cloud One Next, the intended users are mission systems owners that either work in a cloud environment or are looking to move there from current on-premise data centers. Industry feedback to the sources sought notice is due Dec. 5, the Air Force said in this Sam.gov notice.

No ceiling dollar value or period of performance is determined yet, but the specs and scale suggest Cloud One Next will be in the territory of hundreds of millions.

That request is uses for information use the phrase ” cloud landing zone ” for where those operator are look to go for standardized technology offering that exist across multiple cloud host provider .

finalize in 2019 , the original and current Cloud One contract is covers hold by Science Applications International Corp. cover common access to Air Force application and other service include information .

Cloud One connects Air Force and other users in the Defense Department to the commercial hosting environments provided by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google and Oracle.

That contract now has an $800 million ceiling and expires in June 2024.

In support of its work on Cloud One Next, the Air Force is asking companies for their approaches to managing and modernizing that service in line with “recent government leadership direction.”

The Air Force also included in the notice both the National Defense Strategy, made public in late October, and the Air Force chief information officer’s strategy for federal fiscal years 2023 through 2028.

development work on Cloud One Next is getting is get underway as the Defense Department work toward its award of a potential $ 9 billion enterprise cloud contract , which DOD expect to make in December to more than one host provider .