FORT BELVOIR, Va. -- The U.S. Army recently completed a data center as-a-service (DCaaS) implementation and data center modernization project at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), Washington. The project marked the Army’s final DCaaS effort, setting the stage for the transition to shared compute and store services in calendar year 2026.
A team from the Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services (ALTESS) product office at U.S. Army Program Executive Office (PEO) Enterprise, spent the past year building a compute and store stack for users of the installation’s Army Enterprise Data Center (AEDC). The stack, hosted by ALTESS, will provide a virtual computing environment, reducing the hardware footprint for application and system owners at JBLM.
The U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM), which manages the DCaaS project, is anticipated to authorize the move of applications and systems from the JBLM data center to their new environment in December. NETCOM owns 10 of the Army’s 12 AEDCs and has worked closely with managed service provider ALTESS in recent years to achieve increased enterprise IT capability in support of the Army’s data center consolidation goals.
Besides developing JBLM’s compute and store stack, ALTESS performed an extensive upgrade of JBLM’s data center facility infrastructure, making it more efficient and less susceptible to power outages. Among other improvements, the ALTESS team coordinated with the Army Corps of Engineers to install a backup generator, hot aisle containment system, two new 40-ton chillers and new flooring; replace 160 uninterruptible power supply batteries; and enable data center infrastructure management capabilities.
According to ALTESS Acting Product Lead Barry Nichols, JBLM’s updated enterprise data center infrastructure will provide higher reliability for the installation’s area of responsibility (AOR).
“A lot of data passes through and is hosted by JBLM,” said Nichols. “By providing redundant power and cooling systems and a better space for IT equipment, we’re positively impacting the services Soldiers get from that AOR.”
Besides the DCaaS implementation at JBLM, ALTESS has supported NETCOM DCaaS and facility improvement projects at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and U.S. Army Garrison Grafenwoehr in Germany.
ALTESS, based in Radford, Virginia, is part of PEO Enterprise’s Enterprise Services portfolio.
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