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New DoD CIO To Take Over Lead Of Pentagon Cloud Initiatives

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New DoD CIO To Take Over Lead Of Pentagon Cloud Initiatives
Dana Deasy Department of Defense, Chief Information Officer, poses for his official portrait in the Army portrait studio at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, May 07, 2018. (U.S. Army photo by William Pratt)

The Pentagon’s new chief information officer is replacing the Defense Digital Service as the lead for the department’s cloud computing efforts, the deputy secretary of defense said Monday.DoD CIO Dana Deasy will now oversee the controversial multi-billion dollar Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative (JEDI) cloud project, which has yet to receive a final RFP and has received pushback from industry for its single-award contract structure.“This initiative is part of a larger effort to modernize information technology across the DoD enterprise,” a…

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