DISA reorganizes cloud office

NOTE: This article first appeared on FCW.com.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has reorganized its cloud and enterprise service offices to create a new organization called the Hosting and Compute Center (HaCC), FCW has learned.

The new office is a combination of the cloud computing program office with DISA's services directorate and ecosystem. Sharon Woods, who leads the cloud program office as its executive director, will lead HaCC as its acting director starting Oct. 1, a DISA spokesperson confirmed via email.

The HaCC will be "responsible for providing the warfighter with critical hosting and compute functions using modern data center and cloud capabilities," which underpin several Defense Department-wide efforts including Joint All Domain Command and Control and improving data analytics, a DISA spokesperson wrote.

The reorganization is the latest change in the Defense Department's cloud pursuits in recent years. DISA took over full operational and administrative control of the now former cloud computing program office in January.

The CCPO, which was previously split between the DOD CIO and DISA, was responsible for carrying out the now defunct Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement and other efforts. Moving the office under DISA's full purview was meant to centralize the department's cloud buying capabilities.

The new arrangement, DISA wrote, will continue that "vision" to provide multiple cloud hosting and computing platforms "multiple platforms including modern data centers and cloud computing."