Comments on: DoD: Cloud Will Save Us ‘Hundreds of Millions’

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 06 May 2011 01:25:47 +0000

Why build forge around subversion when DVCS are superior. Why build something new on top of obsolete technology?

By: Head in the Cloud: DoD Turns to Cloud Computing

Head in the Cloud: DoD Turns to Cloud Computing — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:01:54 +0000

[...] addition to convenience, DISA hopes RACE will save the DoD hundreds of millions of dollars, estimates Henry Sienkiewicz, who manages the RACE [...]

By: Windows Azure and the many faces of cloud

Windows Azure and the many faces of cloud — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:48:50 +0000

[...] a much more cost-effective means of rapidly provisioning new servers than what they used to do. The newly launched Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE) at the US Department of Defense is a good, topical example. But it’s not a variety of cloud computing I want to discuss here — [...]

By: Blogs of War: Need to Know: 12/07/2009

Blogs of War: Need to Know: 12/07/2009 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:07:46 +0000

[...] DoD: Cloud Will Save Us ‘Hundreds of Millions’ “This is a radical shift,” Sienkiewicz said yesterday at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. “We really believe we will be able to save hundreds of millions of dollars as we go forward with this model.” [...]

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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:27:01 +0000

By: Cloud Computing : RACE to information preparedness « The Indian digital government

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:28:50 +0000

[...] cloud computing. Leave a Comment RACE stands for Rapid Access Computing Environment – is an initiative by the US Military’s information systems department. It is a very interesting architecture [...]

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:38:39 +0000

By way of background, the context of the presentation was describing the efforts at hand and did not focus on the ROI/ROV (return on value) analysis.

The savings that are already started to be generated are gains in efficiency and immediate cost avoidance. The three “easiest” examples in the context of this article are:

- Accreditation: The reduction of the accreditation process from 80 days to the current 40 (object end state of 7) are direct labour hours/dollars – government and contractor – that can applied to other issues.

- Rapid access to resources: Rather than having individual program managers acquire test and development services (which generally involves procuring hardware, software, etc). The RACE initiative allows DOD program managers to quickly draw on a common pool of assets. One of the slides in the presentation entitled “Develop and Deploy Within the Decision Making Cycle) showed the reduction from months to hours to acquire development and test resources, from many months to a smaller number to develop (by using Forge), from many months to days to certify an application, and finally from many months to days to acquire the production resources.

- Forge.mil: The use of Forge.mil is already increasing the amount of time code being reused. Additionally, Forge.mil gives program manager the ability to avoid purchasing something that is now provided as a common, cost effective service.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:31:23 +0000

Nice stuff but how, when, and where is the DoD going to save hundreds of millions? Is this real cash, productivity, or both? Article points to nice productivity gains but nothing else. WIth nothing to support the claim this is hard not to dismiss as hype….