The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) reached a new milestone in its classified cloud effort by migrating more than 300,000 Department of Defense (DoD) users into the new secret environment, the agency announced via LinkedIn on April 22.
With a recent migration of over 100,000 users to DoD 365-Secret (DoD365-Sec), more than 300,000 DoD employees have been migrated to the classified cloud environment and can now take advantage of the full suite of Microsoft capabilities including Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams.
DoD365-Sec is the DoD’s classified cloud solution for secure information sharing across operational boundaries, providing warfighters with modern tools that allow them to operate ahead of the adversary and meet their mission anytime, anywhere.
DISA began deploying DoD365-Sec in 2023 and it initially moved about 11,000 users to its classified cloud environment.
“The DoD365-Secret is the latest in DISA’s efforts to modernize the mission network and supply industry-leading applications, intelligent cloud services, and world-class security to the department and the warfighter,” DISA said in a press release.
DISA deployed the new cloud environment through the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) blanket purchase agreement to support the implementation of Microsoft’s suite of cloud-based productivity tools, dubbed Office 365.
“Bringing communication and collaboration in a classified environment to the DoD has been one of our top priorities. This tremendous achievement of the [Defense Enterprise Office Solutions] program is attributed to the extraordinary talent and tireless effort by many teams and individuals to modernize the mission for our warfighters,” Kimberly Lingafelt, DISA Defense Enterprise Office Solutions program manager, said is a statement.
Earlier this year, the agency announced it moved 200,000 DoD employees to DoD 365-Sec through the DEOS blanket purchase agreement, which the agency also announced via a LinkedIn post.
