Saturday, January 5, 2019

What is the Army Application Migration Business Office (AAMBO)

AAMBO assists Army capabilty owners with application assessment and migration to other hosting environments, including DISA traditional, milCloud and milCloud Plus, Army Enterprise Data Centers (AEDC), Army Private Cloud Enterprise (APC-E), DISA Enterprise Computing Centers (DECC), and commercial cloud provider (CSP) cloud service offering (CSO).
Engage with AAMBO consists of a 6 step process:

  1. Discovery and Portfolio Analysis. Use the Army Application Migration Planning Tool (AAMPT) to record application characterisics (e.g. server CPU, memory, storage requirements, resource utilization, etc.). This is for unclassified applications only. SIPR application data is collected via PDF files (which are deemed classified upon completion per DISA Circular 300-115-3).
  2. Migration Readiness Assessment and Rough order of Magnitude. AAMBO produces a report which provides costs for various hosting options (+/- 50%). Note costs do not include accreditation (i.e. ATO), provider services such as Cybersecurity Service Provider​ (CSSP), licensing, any provider enhancements such as performance monitoring, log collection, etc., and operation and maintenance labor and tools.
  3. Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA). A presentation (PowerPoint) is prepared in cooperation with the Army capability owner, CIO/G-6 Policy & Resources (P&R, ​​and ​Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army​​ for Cost and Economics (DACA-CE)​.
  4. Migration Planning. Use of the Army Cloud Computing Enterprise Transformation (ACCENT) contract vehicle.
  5. Execute Migration.
  6. Quality Assurance & Steady State.
Ordering of ACCENT cloud services is conducted through the Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS) Information Technology eMart:  https://chess.army.mil. Acquisition Package considerations include:
  • Aquisition Strategy/Acquisition Plan:  contract type, source selection criteria, Service Contract Approval Request (SCAR) Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP).
  • Requirements:  tecnical, security, transition support, Service Level Agreement (SLA), Performance Work Statement (PWS), or Statement of Objectives (SOO).
  • Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE)
Reference(s):
Contact(s):
  • AAMBO Project Officer:  Donald Squires, donald.c.squires.civ@mail.mil, 703-704-1638
  • AAMBO Team Lead:  James Stevens, james.e.stevens26.ctr@mail.mil, 703-704-3369
  • Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Cost & Economics (ODASA-CE) Acquisition Costing Directorate (SAFM-CEA-C):  cybilline Aclan, cybilline.e.aclan.civ@mail.mil, 703-697-1619
  • PL EC ACCENT POCs:  Donald Squires, Scott Knudson, scott.e.knudson.ctr@mail.mil, 703-704-2366, Louis Peasley, louis.c.peasley.ctr@mail.mil, 703-704-2197. 
  • AAMBO mailbox:  usarmy.belvoir.peo-eis.mbx.army-app-migration-office@mail.mil

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