UNCLASSIFIED required governance forums to ensure that overall objectives and implementation plans as described in this strategy are enacted. The DoD CIO will leverage existing governance forums to the greatest extent possible. The DoD CIO will organize forums that bring together all lessons learned and find ways to integrate into DoD policies, procedures, and acquisition strategies moving forward. These forums will allow the Department to do regular checks on cloud adoption progress and course correct quickly. The forums will develop detailed implementation plans on rationalization, assessment, planning, and budgeting for accelerating the digital environment to migrate into the enterprise cloud solution. These forums must be the catalyst to aggressively move the Department to embrace the use ofcloud. The DoD CIO in conjunction with the governance forums will provide written guidance on the process and what factors are key to assessing a system for General Purpose or Fit For Purpose hosting. The Department must strive for a Cloud First bias on all future application development/implementations. Organizations should move toward rnpdemization by implementing "cloud native" applications, meaning that the architecture of the system can make use of the scalable, dynamically elastic, distributed nature of cloud computing platforms. Leaving systems running on legacy infrastructure or using other legacy technology must be the exception, not the standard. Additionally, these forums will work through the Office ofthe Under Secretary ofDefense for Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S) to address current regulations that govern acquisitions to fully take advantage of modem utility/consumption-based services and to enhance contracting capabilities and ATO processes to enable reuse of PaaS/SaaS and cloud-based applications. Working through Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE), the forums will provide early insight into annual Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) for cloud activity in the Department. Additionally, these forums will work with the Office of Chief Management Officer (CMO) for application of relevant data standards and governance processes in cloud activities. As JAIC matures, a key organizational imperative will be to ensure that the requirements of JAIC and enterprise cloud are being jointly integrated. Workforce Considerations In today's world, our adversaries are working to develop new capabilities that leverage the advantages of cloud. Therefore, we must ensure, that as we migrate and become more dependent on the cloud, that we are organically growing our cloud technical skills to outpace our adversaries. We can never lose sight that cloud is a key enabler for emerging technologies, such as AI. The future DoD cloud workforce must grow organic technical capabilities by building a more diverse and balanced workforce among military and civilian components. DoD's workforce must obtain a basic level of cloud proficiency in order to most effectively exploit the benefits of cloud. Just as every Marine is a rifleman, every DoD employee must have basic cloud awareness to effectively operate on the 21st century battlefield. A-4