Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has awarded it a Production Other Transaction Authority contract—with a 10-year period of performance valued at $931 million—to implement a distributed hybrid multi-cloud platform aimed at modernizing DISA’s data centers.

HPE will deploy its Private Cloud Enterprise platform using GreenLake, creating a secure, National Institute of Standards and Technology-compliant cloud environment managed on-premises and in air-gapped configurations. The system is designed to unify management of DISA’s information technology resources across both public and private clouds with a single hybrid control plane, supporting multi-tenancy, virtual private clouds, and data privacy under a zero-trust architecture.

HPE claims GreenLake provides the agility, scalability, and automation of public cloud services while maintaining the performance and security of an on-premises private cloud. The system will consolidate DISA’s J9 Hosting and Compute operations, aiming to simplify infrastructure management, increase efficiency, and reduce operational complexity and costs.

According to HPE, the deployment builds on a prototype launched in 2024 and is expected to help DISA accelerate communications, application deployment, and support for artificial intelligence and data analytics workloads. The platform is tailored to mission-critical, global operations.

“We’ve built GreenLake to deliver a secure, unified cloud experience, and we’re honored that DISA has selected HPE to extend those capabilities to create a sovereign cloud tailored to the agency’s mission-critical needs,” said Fidelma Russo, executive vice president and general manager of hybrid cloud and CTO, HPE. “With this secure hybrid, multi-cloud platform, DISA can deliver innovative, future-ready managed services to the agencies it supports that are operating across the globe.”

Source: Hewlett Packard Enterprise