Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] on Monday said it has made a $5 million strategic investment in Morpheus Data

, a software provider of cloud automation and platform engineering solutions.

SAIC said that with the investment Morpheus’ software will become its orchestration engine within the company’s CloudScend suite of solutions for customers operating within the cloud environment.

“This investment is aligned with SAIC’s strategy to seamlessly integrate best-in-class technologies to improve outcomes for our customers,” Andy Henson, vice president of digital innovation at SAIC, said in a statement. “By combining our research and development priorities with Morpheus, we offer a compelling solution both significantly accelerating service delivery provisioning cycles and improving transparency in multi-cloud environments. This investment allows SAIC to address a strong and growing pipeline of Secure Cloud opportunities.”

SAIC said it has more than $1 billion in annual sales from work in the secure cloud market.

Morpheus said SAIC’s use of its software in CloudScend demonstrates that the company’s “close partnerships with systems integrators will accelerate our federal business.”