Mission-Driven Modernization: How Leidos Unlocks the Real Power of the Cloud

 Across government and defense, the conversation around cloud has evolved. What once focused on infrastructure and data center replacement has matured into a broader discussion about how cloud can help accelerate decision-making, enhance resilience, strengthen security and maximize mission performance. At Leidos, mission impact drives everything we do. We don’t see cloud as just a destination—it’s a business model and a powerful accelerator. Cloud is a catalyst that can deliver intelligence, speed and agility to the mission, supporting organizations as they work to achieve outcomes that matter most.

Cloud as a mission force multiplier

For today’s missions, success depends on the ability to act on information quickly, securely and confidently. Cloud enables readiness by providing scalable environments, rapid provisioning, and access to advanced analytics and automation. However, technology alone is not enough. Agencies need integrated architectures, repeatable processes and governance models that turn cloud capabilities into tangible mission advantage.

Leidos’ cloud philosophy prioritizes outcomes and accessibility. Every cloud decision, whether migrating an application, optimizing workloads or extending capability to the edge, should tie directly to mission goals. That alignment drives the way we architect, automate, secure and sustain the environments we deliver.

The engine behind successful cloud modernization

Leidos developed CLOUDbank to help bring discipline, repeatability and mission alignment to cloud adoption. Featuring a comprehensive approach that spans readiness, migration, operations, automation and optimization, CLOUDbank provides a flexible portfolio of solutions to help organizations with their digital modernization efforts. Instead of discrete, one-off cloud projects, CLOUDbank provides a structured, secure and cost-aware ecosystem designed to promote organizational fluidity and efficiency.

CLOUDbank helps agencies accelerate cloud adoption through enterprise roadmaps, application rationalization and migration playbooks while reducing risk with a security-first, zero-trust model that spans multicloud, hybrid and on-prem environments. CLOUDbank also automates deployments using DevSecOps pipelines, infrastructure as code templates and orchestration tools to help create consistent, repeatable, secure environments. In addition, automation is integrated into workflows and processes to support long-term operational optimization through financial governance (FinOps), visibility into usage and workload performance analytics. These capabilities help agencies track consumption, predict costs and prevent waste while aligning investments with mission priorities. 

With more than 2,000 cloud migrations completed across defense, intelligence, federal civilian and commercial projects spanning more than five million users, Leidos has extensive expertise designing and operating mission-critical cloud ecosystems at scale.

Zero trust and security without compromise

Mission success relies on trust, and trust relies on security. That’s why Leidos’ cloud solutions are designed with zero trust principles at every layer. Identity, device health, data sensitivity, network conditions and workload behavior all factor into real-time access decisions.

We pair cloud-native security services with enhanced protections, such as continuous monitoring and automated incident response, threat intelligence sharing across mission partners, standardized security patterns deployed consistently across environments, as well as built-in compliance automation to reduce audit burden.

Edge-to-cloud advantage: Full capability, anywhere

The mission doesn’t always operate in fully connected environments. Warfighters and operators often work in denied, disrupted, intermittent or limited (DDIL) conditions where latency and connectivity challenges can compromise operations.

Leidos solves this challenge with architectures that can extend processing and AI/ML inference to the tactical edge, help maintain core capabilities running even during periods of disconnection, support synchronization back to the cloud once communications restore and deliver a common operating environment across cloud, on-prem and edge platforms. These secure, resilient architectures help ensure that decision advantage continues even in the most contested or remote locations.

Unified systems. Unified mission

Today’s missions depend on the ability to collaborate across domains, partners and classification levels. Our cloud solutions use open frameworks, API-driven integration and standards-based design, enabling systems to work together instead of in isolation. By enabling secure data flow across networks, security boundaries and coalition partners, Leidos helps agencies move from siloed systems to shared situational awareness and coordinated action. This is where the true power of secure cloud solutions comes into focus. 

As Blake Nelson, vice president of the secure cloud & data center practice at Leidos, explains, “Secure cloud is ultimately about decision advantage. When we architect cloud solutions that layer in automation and AI/ML, then we’re able to get the right data to the right people at the right time, enabling faster decisions, stronger mission readiness, and a higher level of trust across the entire enterprise. Cloud is the engine that makes that level of insight and visibility possible at mission speed.”

This philosophy informs how Leidos approaches everything from data tagging and automated security controls to cross-domain architectures and mission partner environments. Cloud becomes the backbone that transforms raw data into operational intelligence.

Cloud as a strategic imperative

The future of mission success depends on secure, scalable, interoperable and resilient cloud ecosystems. Leidos is committed to helping customers move from data to decisions with confidence, delivering cloud environments that are not only modern but mission-ready. Through automation, security, interoperability, and edge-to-cloud integration, Leidos works to help agencies unlock the power of the cloud and accelerate outcomes where they matter most.

Learn more about how Leidos is helping defense agencies turn cloud innovation into operational advantage from Bryan Jolly, senior vice president, DISA IT business area leader, and Blake Nelson, vice president, secure cloud & data center practice, in this MeriTalk interview From Data to Decisions: Delivering Mission Outcomes with Cloud and this MeriTalk webinar Advancing Readiness Through Automation: Reinventing Cloud Operations for the Modern Battlefield.