Research Summaries

Back Expeditionary Cloud Computing Architecture in Support of Logistical Decision Making Platform

Fiscal Year 2013
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Information Sciences
Investigator(s) Boger, Dan C.
Sponsor Marine Corps HQ Installations Command (Marine Corps)
Summary The Department of Defense (DoD) is planning an aggressive move towards Cloud Computing technologies. The Cloud Computing concept has been floating around the private Information Technology (IT) sector for a number of years and has benefited organizations with cost savings, increased efficiencies, and flexibility by sharing computer resources through network connections (Donovan & Katzman, 2010). The push for Cloud Computing has been driven by the 25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management that highlighted the shift to a Cloud first policy (Kundra, 2010). The plan to reform Federal IT has accelerated the DoD, more specifically the Marine Corps, towards Cloud Computing technologies making this relatively new paradigm inevitable. However, the urgency for the Marine Corps to implement Cloud Computing needs to be tempered by a comprehensive evaluation which includes but is not limited to; Cloud Computing technologies, local versus remote logistical data types and sub-sets, and virtual Cloud Computing architectures. More specifically, the Marine Corps has not delineated guidance on whether current Cloud Computing architectures can be applied to an expeditionary Cloud environment. Therefore, this thesis will explore the feasibility of using a Cloud Computing architecture that will support enhanced logistical decision support systems in an expeditionary Cloud environment.
Keywords Cloud Computing Architectures Logistics Decision Support Expeditionary Environment
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