Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer for the Department of the Air Force and a 2023 Wash100 Award recipient, said the service branch is figuring out how to transition its software development platform into the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program, Breaking Defense reported Thursday.
“Actually the appetite’s pretty high and I think that would actually be a really good thing because Platform One was envisioned to be a platform that any development team could show up to and have a comprehensive and complementary set of products and services that were well orchestrated to drive mission value across whatever that mission was,” she said Thursday at a conference in Baltimore, Maryland.
“And I think actually a move to JWCC would be perfect,” added Knausenberger, who cited the idea to DOD CIO and fellow Wash100 awardee John Sherman.
She noted that “people will be beating down the door to jump onto JWCC” if the Air Force could address data sovereignty and other issues.
In December, DOD awarded Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle positions on the JWCC contract.
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