Army's cloud management agency taps Oracle for its infrastructure

The Defense Department is tasking Oracle to supply the Army with its cloud infrastructure to help move toward building a "secure, multicloud ecosystem" for the service, according to a company press release from today.

The firm-fixed-price order stems from DOD’s 2022 $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract -- awarded to Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle -- which is intended to provide cloud services across the department by June 2028.

This latest award follows the largest JWCC order from October 2024, according to the press release, which tasked the company with shifting the service’s Integrated Personnel and Pay System (IPPS-A) to the cloud.

Oracle will provide compute and storage services to the Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA) through Oracle Defense Cloud, the company’s system designed to supply “secure and isolated cloud regions” that meet the high-bar requirements for handling all sorts of classified defense “workloads,” according to the release.

“Federal agencies face increasing pressure to modernize their infrastructure while maintaining the highest security standards and controlling costs,” said Kim Lynch, executive vice president for government, defense and intelligence at Oracle.

“Our purpose-built cloud solutions will help ECMA to address these challenges head-on, delivering the performance, security, and efficiencies that Army customers need in order to achieve more with less,” she said.

ECMA lives within the office of the chief information officer of the Army and oversees the service’s cloud processes and activities. Its mission is to provide “a secure, multicloud environment that empowers the Army to achieve its digital transformation goals,” Gabe Chiulli, chief technology officer at ECMA, said in a statement.

ECMA functions in line with the Army’s Digital Transformation Strategy, written in 2021, which called for a complete shift toward onboarding new technology like artificial intelligence and harnessing data.

“The cloud is the foundation for this entire modernization effort,” the strategy says.