Major General John Ferrari presented on the U.S. Army Program Analysis and Evaluation's (PA&E) migration to the AWS cloud. PA&E manages $160 billion in annual budget resources and needed to modernize its legacy system. It observed cloud adoption in the private sector and migrated its cPROBE system to AWS to gain access to new tools, optimize data handling, and enable 21,000 users to better collaborate across the Army. The migration focuses on DevSecOps, data engineering, and integrating systems both vertically and horizontally on AWS services like RDS, Lambda, and Redshift.

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Program Analysis & Evaluation’s
Migration to the AWS Cloud
Major General (MG) John Ferrari
Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation
US Army G-8
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Program Analysis & Evaluation (PA&E)
Our mission: resource allocation and decision-making at
the department level
Manpower, training, equipping, sustaining, and installations
Our system—cPROBE—unites 21,000+ Army users
worldwide to manage 770,000+ decision inputs
Our end-product forms the foundation of the annual
President’s Budget: currently $160 billion per annum
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We found the cloud
What Drives Us…
We’re in the business of data
How it’s accessed, used, distributed, stored, and analyzed
We observed the changing landscape in private sector
An explosion in availability of tools and data
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Challenges
All these blend together & influence each other
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Business Transformation
Processes
Limitations and capabilities of legacy systems
Organizational Structure
Codified into processes
Integration
First vertical, then horizontal
Must look at both vertical and horizontal stovepipes
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Human Capital
Plan
Have a plan for all three groups
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Technical Implementation
DevSecOps
Merge functional software areas into a
continuous pipeline
Data Engineering
Build and optimize the data environment
Cybersecurity
Provide compliance: “do once, use often”
Inherit risk management framework (RMF)
security controls
Learn by doing --- on ourselves
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Horizontal Integration
Conceptual view enables users to “see themselves” and collaborate across the Army
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Fun Things We Use in the Cloud
Amazon CloudWatch for timely security and system metrics
Availability Zones for low-cost COOP solution
Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)
Serverless services for analytics
No need to maintain servers
Data warehouse for storage
Handles large data archives
Amazon Redshift
Amazon RDS
AWS Lambda
Availability
Zones
Our “playground”
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Questions?
MG John Ferrari
Supported by
Lisa Shaler, Deputy, Data Division/CTO
Army G-8 PA&E

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MG John Ferrari
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Lisa Shaler, Deputy, Data Division/CTO
Army G-8 PA&E

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