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DISA awards CSRA $498M-ceiling milCloud 2.0 contract

The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has awarded CSRA a $498 million ceiling contract to support milCloud 2.0 Phase 1. Under the contract, CSRA will provide DoD with a private cloud infrastructure and leverage existing economies of scale with the company’s FedRAMP High offering ARC-P.

The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contains a three-year base period that will run through June 8, 2020, followed by five one-year options.

[Image courtesy: DISA]

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