POLICY REGARDING THE TRANSITION OF DATA AND APPLICATIONS TO THE CLOUD.

SEC. 1755. [10 U.S.C. 2223a note] POLICY REGARDING THE TRANSITION OF DATA AND APPLICATIONS TO THE CLOUD. (a) Policy Required.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense and the Chief Data Officer of the Department shall, in consultation with the J6 of the Joint Staff and the Chief Management Officer, develop and issue enterprise-wide policy and implementing instructions regarding the transition of data and applications to the cloud under the Department cloud strategy in accordance with subsection (b). (b) Design.—The policy required by subsection (a) shall be designed to dramatically improve support to operational missions and management processes, including by the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, by— (1) making the data of the Department available to support new types of analyses; (2) preventing, to the maximum extent practicable, the replication in the cloud of data stores that cannot readily be accessed by applications for which the data stores were not originally engineered; (3) ensuring that data sets can be readily discovered and combined with others to enable new insights and capabilities; and (4) ensuring that data and applications are readily portable and not tightly coupled to a specific cloud infrastructure or platform.