UNCLASSIFIED available and evolving enterprise digital solutions are often CONUS-based. For OCONUS users, reaching back to CONUS-based solutions reduces mission effectiveness in theater (e.g., added latency, lack of resilient data transport and access). DoD requires innovative, secure, reliable, and redundant cloud computing at the tactical edge with reach back to CONUS to empower the Joint Force and achieve an operational advantage. Objective 1: Deploy OCONUS Cloud Computing Under an Enterprise Construct. The deployment of OCONUS cloud computing must be managed as an enterprise to ensure more efficient technology approvals. This is particularly relevant for security accreditation and parity of cloud services between the enterprise and OCONUS. Doing so provides more efficient use of cloud resources based on mission needs across the region and greater efficiencies in fielding proven cloud capabilities. Data needs to be processed close to its source and staged as close to the warfighter as possible to enable data-driven decisions. The warfighter requires the ability to apply analytical tools or to rapidly stand up temporary Task Force collaboration environments regardless of geographic location. OCONUS users must have access to deployable cloud computing, high­ performance computing, and edge computing capabilities as they become available. This includes innovative cloud services that enable agile software development, robust collaboration, and powerful analytics such as Al/ML. Individually approving and implementing these capabilities at the point of need results in duplicative efforts and sub-optimal use of capacity. Management on an enterprise-level will also require the facilitation of data flows between domains of varying levels of classification while ensuring appropriate accreditation policies and procedures are maintained. This will be both an information assurance and an information security effort at the enterprise level to ensure that the warfighter maintains the advantage at the tactical edge. Objective 2: Optimize Data Center Infrastructure for Resilient Access to Data and Services. DoD recognizes that not all systems can reside in a cloud environment. There is a continued need for data center infrastructure, which must be optimized in alignment with cloud resources to account for reliability and availability (e.g., continued operations, data replication). Distributed mobile cloud data centers and their integration with DoD data centers must allow for a distributed cloud model for broader availability of cloud capabilities, including automated failover of stored data in times of crisis and operational disruptions (e.g., cyber-attacks, infrastructure degradations, or outages). DoD's data center infrastructure must appropriately integrate with cloud resources to allow for a seamless and resilient OCONUS user experience. Objective 3: Provide Ability to Traverse Cloud Environments for Persistent Data Access. A warfighter carrying out a mission requires persistent access to information hosted by various cloud providers, in different environments, and at multiple classification levels. This information ecosystem must include data to and from various tactical devices and mission partner environments that enable information sharing with coalition partners. Mission owner and warfighter access to information must not be tethered to a specific cloud solution or data center. They must be available regardless of geographical location or coalition partnership. This requires the automated synchronization of data across the cloud environment to include ruggedized tactical devices when available. 4