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Time to do some USAF Cloud One research.
Did SecDef Pete Hegseth cancel this program? According to Google Gemini:
Yes, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth canceled the Air Force'sCloud One Next
resale contract in April 2025 as part of broader cuts to IT and consulting spending, stating it would save the DoD $1.4 billion by shifting to in-house services, though some question the true cost savings.
There may be a confusion with names, further search revealed this:
Cloud One Next (C1N) ishe U.S. Air Force's initiative to modernize its enterprise cloud environment, evolving from the original Cloud One, by creating a standardized "cloud landing zone" with common services, tools, and security (like Zero Trust) to help mission owners migrate data and applications from on-premise data centers to various cloud providers. This multi-award contract program, with winners like Accenture and Leidos, focuses on architecture, application modernization, migration, and managing cloud services, aiming for a more automated, secure, and efficient IT infrastructure.
My hunch: this program isn't going anywhere. It may get a new name and the funding my come via different routes, but the program itself is unlikely to die. Unless Pete Hegseth wants to give the entire program to Microsoft or Palantir or some other publicly-traded company.
I have not dog in this fight. This is simply for the archives.
However, having said that, I have no trouble with Hegseth canceling a program. It will require folks to justify the program and re-start it if necessary. In my 30+ years in the USAF, many of those years at headquarters level -- I saw a lot of programs that needed ot be canceled. Most were not.
