UNCLASSIFIED Technology Evolution. DoD needs to develop an organizational construct that insures adoption of the enterprise cloud. The time is now. DoD can no longer afford to delay its technological and cultural shift to truly modem technologies. Rapidly providing DoD access to underlying foundational technologies, like cloud computing and data storage, on a global scale is critical to national defense and in preparing DoD to fight and win wars. If the Department wants to maintain its overmatch, it will need to leverage technologies such as AI and therefore, it must urgently create an enterprise cloud environment. The strategy outlined in this document provides the approach for moving forward. 11