
DISA’s Thunderdome achieves advanced zero-trust goals
DISA’s Thunderdome solution hit all 152 of the Defense Department’s capability outcomes and has achieved advanced levels of zero trust, according to a senior official.
DISA’s Thunderdome solution hit all 152 of the Defense Department’s capability outcomes and has achieved advanced levels of zero trust, according to a senior official.
The platform will be deployed in the coming months at Indo-Pacom via DISA’s Joint Operational Edge cloud environment.
DISA will start with the Army and then continue to federate the remaining services before the end of fiscal 2025.
“Hopefully in a helpful way, we’re trying to bound that with the right level of department-wide guidance and instruction that we’ll have out here fairly shortly from the CIO’s office,” Kevin Mulvihill said.
He succeeds Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, who is retiring after a 40-year career.
“We still have applications that run on mainframes that are critical to day-to-day operations, and the people who wrote those are dead,” the chief of cloud services at DISA said.
Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner said JWCC 2.0 will bring faster commercial cloud capability and “greater diversity.”
Members in the House and Senate have proposed in legislation the elevation of Joint Force Headquarters-DOD Information Network to a sub-unified command.
The Defense Information Systems Agency is setting up a Joint Operational Edge (JOE) cloud capability in Germany.
The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability is the Defense Department’s top enterprise cloud initiative.