The Treasury Department released a Cloud Acquisition Roadmap outlining the current state of the agency’s cloud architecture—namely, a hybrid cloud running Amazon Web Services—and the desired future state: a $1 billion multicloud environment called the T-Cloud.
Published Sunday, the roadmap builds off the cloud and IT modernization strategies released earlier this year, adding substance to the procurement strategy and explaining the agency’s interest in a diverse, enterprise cloud environment.
“At present, Treasury bureaus are individually moving forward with cloud solutions, and have implemented a number of cloud solutions to address unique mission priorities requiring agile and elastic approaches, often through duplicative contract actions,” the strategy states. “This scattered approach, while offering varying degrees of agility for individual customers, ignores opportunities for cost reduction through service deduplication and consolidated procurement actions.”
The roadmap notes acquisition is often the biggest barrier to cloud adoption, and “occasionally negate many of the just-in-time benefits associated with cloud services.” The fix—proposed in the acquisition roadmap—is a shared services environment in which Treasury components work within the same multicloud environment.
Using the “enterprisewide acquisition strategy” will allow procurement officials to concentrate on “long contract lifecycles” while Treasury programs focus on meeting their missions day to day. This strategy also allows the department to use its significant buying power to barter for lower costs than if smaller components attempted to solicit individual solutions.
According to the roadmap, components across Treasury are increasing cloud usage at 30% per year.
The department currently operates a cloud environment called Workplace Community Cloud, or WC2, which includes Amazon Web S ..
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