The Air Force issued a major contract to modernize it's weather forecasting and shift to a "software-centric, cloud-based" approach.

The U.S. Coast Guard is watching DOD's JEDI cloud contract closely while weighing if it could launch something similar.

The DOD needs to "decouple" software and hardware development to be able to update the capabilities of systems faster, said Peter Ranks, thee Pentagon's deputy CIO for information enterprise.

The agency will play things safe "a couple more days" before returning to its recently redesigned site.