Leidos wins $455M Air Force cloud architecture job

Leidos has won a potential six-year, $454.9 million task order for systems architecture and common shared services as part of the Air Force’s main program for implementing cloud computing services across its enterprise.

This order is a key cog of Cloud One Next, the service branch’s initiative for accelerating its migration away from on-premise data centers and toward what it calls a “cloud landing zone” for users to access applications.

Air Force and General Services Administration officials received 11 offers for the Cloud One Next Architecture and Common Shared Services order, according to the Pentagon’s Wednesday awards digest. GSA worked with the Air Force to conduct the competition, which was open to holders of a Multiple Award Schedule pact.

A sources sought notice released in 2023 describe C1N ACSS as covering help desk support, customer onboarding, remote access, file transfer functions and other user-facing services.

Leidos is tasked to help maintain and modernize Cloud One’s architecture in order to expand services across the four infrastructure environments it supports: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud.

In essence, Leidos will act as a managed services provider responsible for ensuring users can access cloud capabilities and brokering them. The Air Force wants this to happen via automated, on-demand and self-service means as is done in commercial industries.

The C1N ACSS order covers one initial base year and up to five individual option years.

This is the final award for Cloud One Next, the new iteration of the Air Force’s one-stop shop for acquiring cloud services from multiple infrastructure providers.

Cloud One Next was broken up into three separate awards to follow on from a task order captured by Science Applications International Corp. in 2019.

In May of this year, Booz Allen Hamilton secured a potential $743.1 million task order focused on enterprise application modernization and migration work.

The Air Force awarded a third $1.6 billion order for reselling services in the fall of 2024 to Accenture’s U.S. federal subsidiary, but that portion was cancelled in the spring as part of Department of Government Efficiency reviews at the Defense Department.