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TITLE VIII--ACQUISITION POLICY, ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT, AND RELATED MATTERS

Subtitle G—Other Matters

P. L. 114-

House Conference Report. 114-270

(a) Cloud strategy for Secret Internet Protocol Router Network.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—The Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense shall, in consultation with the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the chief information officers of the military departments, develop a cloud strategy for the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) of the Department.

(2) MATTERS ADDRESSED.—This strategy required by paragraph (1) shall address the following:

(A) Security requirements.

(B) The compatibility of applications currently utilized within the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network with a cloud computing environment.

(C) How a Secret Internet Protocol Router Network cloud capability should be competitively acquired.

(D) How a Secret Internet Protocol Router Network cloud system for the Department would achieve interoperability with the cloud systems of the intelligence community (as defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)) operating at the security level Sensitive Compartmented Information.

(b) Pricing policy and cost recovery process for certain cloud services.—The Chief Information Officer shall, in consultation with the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, develop a consistent pricing policy and cost recovery process for the use by Department of Defense components of the cloud services provided through the Intelligence Community Information Technology Environment.

(c) Assessment of feasibility and advisability of imposing minimum standards.—The Chief Information Officer shall assess the feasibility and advisability of imposing a minimum set of open standards for cloud infrastructure, middle-ware, metadata, and application programming interfaces to promote interoperability, information sharing, ease of access to data, and competition across all of the cloud computing systems and services utilized by components of the Department of Defense.

The House bill contained no similar provision.

The House recedes with a technical amendment.

Senate Report 114-49 to accompany S. 1376 as it was reported out of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Cloud strategy for Department of Defense (sec. 874)

The committee recommends a provision that would require the Chief Information Officer (CIO), in consultation with the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, and the Chief Information Officers of the military departments, to develop a cloud strategy for the secret level of classified data and the Secret Internet Protocol network (SIPRnet). The strategy would be required to address security requirements, the ability to shift current applications to a cloud computing environment, competitive acquisition, and interoperability with Intelligence Community cloud systems operating at higher classification levels. The provision would also require the CIO, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence and in consultation with the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to develop a consistent pricing and cost recovery process for the use by Department of Defense components of the Intelligence Community's cloud services. Finally, the provision would require the CIO to assess the feasibility and advisability of imposing a minimum set of open standards for cloud infrastructure, middle-ware, metadata, and application programming interfaces to promote interoperability, information sharing, access to data, and competition.