"The BPA is a powerful tool that our mission partners can utilize to solve problems for the DOD," says Caroline Bean, director, DISA Program Executive Office Joint Enterprise Services. "Because the BPA is a broad-spectrum, long-term, easily accessible contracting vehicle, the potential ahead is nearly limitless."

Mission partners who need next-generation services and capabilities will find the BPA an expedited means to acquire these services. Identity, credential and access management (ICAM), zero trust security, and enterprise architecture are a few of the capabilities covered under the BPA. Likewise, if DOD partners need cloud tenant services, configuration management, cybersecurity monitoring, classification marking, and other capabilities relevant to a secure cloud collaboration experience, DEOS offers 13 task areas to cover the breadth of support necessary to design, migrate, train and sustain customers. 

Because the BPA eliminates the need for repetitive, individual purchases from schedule type contracts, it decreases cost, reduces paperwork and saves time, creating a purchasing mechanism that works better and costs less. Defense organizations onboard rapidly to the DEOS BPA through a process of mapping objectives to services offered by the contract. 

"The BPA is an agile easy button for contracting; it has already been awarded and fits into the DOD structure. For mission partners that need cloud-related and identity strategy needs, training, engineering support or migration support, it's a one-stop contracting vehicle," says Landymore. 

The DEOS roadmap 

DOD365-Sec is making history, but DEOS won't stop at the classified cloud. Areas on the DEOS horizon are mission partner migrations and cybersecurity support. Additionally, supporting DOD partners deployed in a denied, disconnected, intermittent and limited (DDIL) bandwidth environment is another next-generation project covered under the scope of the DEOS BPA. The United States Marine Corps leveraged the BPA to develop and implement tactical requirement solutions including enabling ship embarkation/debarkation between domains; ensuring naval access to data on travel, ship and plane; and providing ship-to-shore connectivity for units supporting forward deployments. DDIL solutions provide critical access to the warfighter working in compromised and limited bandwidth scenarios. 

From the recently deployed DOD365-Sec to future mission-critical capabilities and services, the DEOS program is changing how the DOD and warfighter operate and collaborate in new environments.

"What we're doing, by bringing the DOD to the cloud and beyond, is equipping the warfighter and the department with secure, responsive and resilient services," says Landymore.  

Individuals with a common access card (CAC) or a government issued computer can visit the DISA Customer Service Management Portal for DOD365-Secret web page and complete a Service Request Form (SRF) to get more information about DOD365-Sec and learn how your organization can become a part of the DOD365-Sec environment, or email deos@mail.mil.