milCloud is a cloud-services product portfolio, managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) that features an integrated suite of capabilities designed to drive agility into the development, deployment and maintenance of secure Department of Defense (DoD) applications. milCloud is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution that leverages a combination of mature Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) and government developed technology to deliver cloud services tailored to needs of the DoD.

All products in the milCloud portfolio feature the following common cloud services characteristics:

• On-Demand, Self-Service: milCloud consumers can place orders on-demand through web-based self-service tools, configure infrastructure resources where appropriate, and manage their mission application’s lifecycle running on those resources without manual intervention from DISA support staff.
• Broad Network Access: All milCloud products and services have network connectivity to the DoD Information Networks (DoDINs), and are configured in accordance with relevant DoD security guidelines and approved protocols.
• Resource Pooling: milCloud resources are pooled such that multiple mission partners consume units from pools provisioned by DISA, enabling efficient use of aggregate resources and greater consumption flexibility.
• Rapid Elasticity: The milCloud portfolio has the ability to expand or contract resource use within virtual resource pools.

VALUE TO OUR MISSION PARTNERS

• As an enterprise service, milCloud reduces the infrastructure costs of operations by consolidating the virtual environments into DISA’s highly secure Defense Enterprise Computing Centers (DECCs).
• milCloud provides the DoD a commercial like hosting capability in a secure environment required to achieve mission objectives.
• A foundational offering of the Joint Information Environment (JIE) Core Data Center (CDC), milCloud is comprised of a shared information technology (IT) infrastructure and single security architecture to achieve full spectrum superiority, improve mission effectiveness, increase security and realize IT efficiencies.