DOD Cloud

The Department of Defense's cloud strategy aims to transform virtually every aspect of the warfighting effort, and has resulted in a rapidly growing ecosystem of both general-purpose and fit-for-purpose clouds.

Some of those efforts are unique to DOD,  reflecting the scale, missions and austere operating environments of military operations, while others are readily transferrable to most any agency.  All, however, hold valuable lessons for those looking to leverage cloud to improve government operations.

Attendees learned about DOD’s most important cloud initiatives and the modernization and mission needs they are supporting.

Event attendees came away with a better understanding of:

  • The latest on MilCloud 2.0 and next steps for DEOS
  • How JEDI delays are affecting cloud initiatives
  • What CMMC means for cloud services
  • Classified cloud provisioning
  • Why cloud is essential to DOD’s data strategy

Speakers

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Brian Chidester

Head of Worldwide Industry Strategy, Public Sector

OpenText

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Brian Chidester

Head of Worldwide Industry Strategy, Public Sector

OpenText

Brian Chidester is the Head of Worldwide Industry Strategy for Public Sector at OpenText and is also the host of "The Government Huddle with Brian Chidester" podcast. He is responsible for growing OpenText’s Public Sector practice while also ensuring the success of our public sector customers.

Prior to joining OpenText, Mr. Chidester served as the Industry Marketing Lead for Public Sector at Appian. He also has held product marketing roles with Monster Worldwide, Arrow ECS and IHS Markit, where he was awarded Best in Show - Lead Generation at the 2014 MarketingSherpa Email Awards.

Mr. Chidester holds a B.S. in Communications Studies from Liberty University, and currently serves on the Digital Transformation Committee for the Northern Virginia Technology Council.

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Sean Frazier

Federal CSO

Okta

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Sean Frazier

Federal CSO

Okta

Sean Frazier is Federal CSO at Okta. In his role, Sean acts as the voice of the CSO for Okta's federal business. Prior to joining Okta, Sean spent more than 25 years working in technology and public sector security for companies such as Duo Security, Netscape, LoudCloud/Opsware, Proofpoint, Cisco & MobileIron. Sean has helped lead numerous projects used by the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, including the Fortezza Crypto Card, Defense Messaging System (DMS) and many others. He also has extensive experience in identity and public key infrastructure (PKI), network, applications, mobile and IoT. Sean has testified in front of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on the importance of public/private partnership in protecting the nation’s digital infrastructure. Sean also advises public/private partnership working groups including ACT-IAC, ATARC and many others.

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Jason Weiss

Director, Software Modernization

DCIO/IE, DOD

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Jason Weiss

Director, Software Modernization

DCIO/IE, DOD

Jason Weiss has an exceptional background in software engineering, cryptology, and computer security dating back to his service in the US Navy as a cryptologist during the first Gulf War. He is the author of Java Cryptography Extensions, published by Morgan-Kaufmann, and co-author or contributor to several other books on distributed computing. He is the sole inventor of the patented Volume Mount Authentication endpoint security algorithm that was eventually integrated into Seagate’s DriveTrust technology, and co-inventor of the Cloud Connected Transponder. In 2000, the NSA recognized Jason as a talented security designer of critical infrastructure protection. He has lectured internationally, including presentations at SD West, Sybase TechWave, Rocky Mountain Java Symposium, AnDevCon (East & West), AWS Summit (Frankfurt, Germany), and various keynotes on NFC and RFID at events like the WIMA European NFC Developers Summit in Monaco. Jason holds a BS in Computer Science and an MA in Intelligence (Information Warfare).

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Joe Becker

VP Customer Success

Uptake

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Joe Becker

VP Customer Success

Uptake

Joe Becker is the VP of Customer success at Uptake, focused on the company’s transportation and federal business. He serves as the conduit between Uptake’s internal teams and stakeholders at both the U.S. Army and UCMC, ensuring that each customer and user is achieving the desired outcomes while using Uptake products. Joe has been with Uptake since 2015, serving various leadership roles within the company, from product development to pre-sales engineering. Regardless of his role at Uptake, Joe is committed to developing products that meet technical requirements, exceed partner expectations, delight users, and ultimately deliver tremendous value. A passionate entrepreneur and trained mechanical engineer, Joe leverages deep technical expertise gained by spending over a decade managing the people, process, and outcomes of large-scale infrastructure projects around the globe.

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Caroline Bean

Program Director for Defense Enterprise Office Solutions, Services Development Directorate

Defense Information Systems Agency

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Caroline Bean

Program Director for Defense Enterprise Office Solutions, Services Development Directorate

Defense Information Systems Agency

Ms. Bean is Program Director for Defense Enterprise Office Solutions in the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Services Development Directorate.

In this position, Ms. Bean is responsible for the integration and deployment of cloud-based enterprise software solutions for the Department of Defense. Her portfolio includes DISA’s enterprise software as a service (SaaS) cloud offering, Defense Enterprise Office Solution (DEOS) as well as the newly deployed, commercially-hosted collaboration suite, DoD365-Joint, which will serve all Defense Agencies and DoD Field Activities (DAFAs) and Combatant Commands.

Throughout her DISA career, Ms. Bean has served in a variety of program management roles, developing and sustaining mission critical enterprise services and maximizing on the adoption of cloud-based solutions within the Department of Defense to include the commercially owned and operated infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering, milCloud 2.0.

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Rick Taylor

Solutions Engineer

Cloudera Government Solutions

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Travis Methvin

Program Manager, Naval Commercial Cloud Services

Department of the Navy

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Travis Methvin

Program Manager, Naval Commercial Cloud Services

Department of the Navy

Mr. Travis Methvin is the Program Manager (PM) for Navy Commercial Cloud Services (NCCS). As PM, he is responsible for developing and executing Department of the Navy (DON) cloud brokerage policy and supporting accelerated adoption of commercial cloud capabilities across the DON.

Mr. Methvin served as an Operations Specialist in the Navy for eight years. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from National University in 2005, he worked as a Strike Group Manager for Afloat Platforms managing Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) installations for ships’ platform modernization efforts. He also served as the Integrated Shipboard Network Systems (ISNS) Fleet Introduction Team Manager.

Prior to joining Navy Commercial Cloud Services, Mr. Methvin served as the Transition Lead and Deputy Director for Data Center and Application Optimization where he managed the successful consolidation of Naval Warfare Systems Command systems and applications, and closure of legacy data centers.

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Chris Tran

Senior Sales Engineer

Snowflake

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Chris Tran

Senior Sales Engineer

Snowflake

Chris Tran is currently a Senior Sales Engineer at Snowflake. Previously, Chris worked at Qlik as the founding Solutions Architect and Partner Enablement Manager for the federal team in the Washington, DC area. Over the last 20 years, Chris has educated thousands of users in the U.S. government, including the intelligence community, department of defense, law enforcement, and civilian agencies. He has a deep background in business intelligence, search engines, and big data analytics working for such companies as Endeca/Oracle, Qlik, and Northrop Grumman. Chris has a BS Computer Engineering degree from Virginia Tech University and an MBA from the George Washington University.

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Dave Lago

Cloud IaC Product Manager, CCPO

Department of Defense

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Dave Lago

Cloud IaC Product Manager, CCPO

Department of Defense

Mr. Lago is the Product Owner of the DoD Cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) project for the Cloud Computing Program Office (CCPO), a center within the Defense Information Systems Agency. In this role, Mr. Lago manages the development of a baseline template that helps mission customers rapidly adopt the latest cloud technology by significantly decreasing deployment, assessment, and authorization timelines.

Prior to this role, Mr. Lago served as a civilian at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) for five years leading cloud and devops initiatives. Mr. Lago also has thirteen years of experience as a contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, BAE, and other consulting firms supporting various defense customers on mission system deployments, cybersecurity, IT strategy, and enterprise architecture.

Mr. Lago holds a master’s of science degree from Johns Hopkins University in Systems Engineering and a bachelor of arts from James Madison University with a major in Computer Information Systems.

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Robert J. Keisler

Director Data Science and Analytics

Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

Agenda

8:30 AM

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Description

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8:35 AM

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

DOD’s Plan for Cloud and Software Modernization

Jason Weiss, Director, Software Modernization, DCIO/IE, DOD

Joe Becker, VP Customer Success, Uptake

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Weiss will discuss DOD’s focus on cloud and its key role in the agency wide software modernization effort. Both are critical components in its efforts to update the software used by the warfighters and defend against the growing number of cyber attacks.

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9:05 AM

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Snowflake Data Sharing and Dynamic Masking

Chris Tran, Senior Sales Engineer, Snowflake

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9:25 AM

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Operational Architecture for Decision Intelligence

Robert J. Keisler, Director Data Science and Analytics, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

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T
his session will focus on DoD’s Data Strategy, which emphasizes access to data and pivoting on data before adversaries are able to adapt. Cloud is a critical architectural element to support these digital and AI-powered operating models.  Cloud platforms allow greater access to data science and artificial intelligence capabilities, which extends decision intelligence from the front line to the back office.


9:50 AM

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Actionable Intelligence: How Advanced Data Analytics Drives DoD Modernization

Rick Taylor, Solutions Engineer, Cloudera Government Solutions

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10:10 AM

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Coffee Break

10:15 AM

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Speeding the move to DEOS

Caroline Bean, Program Director for Defense Enterprise Office Solutions, Services Development Directorate, Defense Information Systems Agency

Description


Defense Enterprise Office Solution (DEOS) enables users across the DoD to seamlessly collaborate and share information across the department, regardless of organizational alignment or location. It is a DOD-wide single, enterprise commercial cloud solution for common communication, collaboration and productivity. During this session, Ms. Bean will discuss program and migration updates for DEOS; anticipated future progress; what DOD organizations need to know to accelerate their migration; and more.


10:40 AM

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

What got you here, won’t get you there: a modernization story.

Sean Frazier, Federal CSO, Okta

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11:00 AM

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Deploy DoD Cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Dave Lago, Cloud IaC Product Manager, CCPO, Department of Defense

Description

DoD Cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) accelerates cloud infrastructure deployment timelines from months to potentially hours, enabling teams to focus on what’s important - their mission. Accelerated cloud deployment is achieved through pre-configured, pre-authorized cloud baselines that leverage Platform as a Service (PaaS) directly from the Cloud Service Providers. These baselines are readily available to end users looking to move their organizations’ data and applications to the cloud. DoD Cloud IaC delivers real-time continuous monitoring and compliance with authorization from the Defense Information System Agency’s Risk Management Executive and common control inheritance in eMASS (Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service) to ease and expedite application assessment and authorization.

The DoD Cloud IaC Product Manager, will discuss how organizations can leverage cloud baselines to expedite cloud deployments, DoD Cloud IaC achievements to date, including baselines in Azure and AWS, anticipated future progress, and the Cloud Computing Program Office - the team responsible for deploying DoD Cloud IaC.

11:25 AM

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Accelerating Cloud Adoption in the DoD

Brian Chidester, Head of Worldwide Industry Strategy, Public Sector, OpenText

Description


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11:45 AM

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

The Navy’s Digital Journey From Cloud Enabler to Digital Service Provider

Travis Methvin, Program Manager, Naval Commercial Cloud Services, Department of the Navy

Description

The Department of the Navy's digital transformation journey to modernize its infrastructure was facilitated and accelerated by leveraging commercial cloud technology and services. As the digital landscape evolves, the Naval Cloud Service Management Organization under PEO Digital is working to ensure the department is on track with digital transformation by acting as the centralized governing entity to deliver processes, tools and guidance for the Naval enterprise.


12:10 PM

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Closing Remarks

Underwriters

Cloudera
Snowflake
OpenText
Uptake
Okta