Up to $250M over 5 Years for US Army Cloud Computing

In January 2012, US Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS) issued 9 firm-fixed-price contracts, worth up to $249.8 million total over 5 years, for Enterprise Cloud Computing services. Cloud computing is a about providing computing applications and management as a service, rather than installing it as machine-specific software. Apple’s iCloud is one well-known example, and Google’s Gmail would be another, but cloud computing can encompass more than just 1 application. It’s connected to the phenomenon of virtualization, which improves back-end efficiency in data centers, but the 2 trends can exist independent of one another. The 7 contract winners are:

USA Ordering Medical-Surgical Supplies, 2005-2012

Surgery, USNS Mercy

Medical supplies are a requirement for any military, and are used by many other government agencies as well. The Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (now Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support) in Philadelphia, PA manages a series of firm-fixed-price contracts for distribution of medical and surgical supplies to the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, federal civilian agencies, Coast Guard, and other non-DoD organizations in the federal government.

Unsurprisingly, the contract totals run to billions of dollars. This Spotlight article covers a series of contracts and option periods, stretching from 2005 – 2012.