USDA Stratus Launch Event

STRATUS was conceived by USDA for USDA to address expiring and fragmented cloud
contracts, enabling cost optimization for cloud services, to maximize competition, enable
collective buying power, improve enterprise data management, and quickly connect
government agencies to commercial IT services and solutions.

Registration   |    Breakfast

Opening Remarks

Keynote Briefings

USDA C-level Executive Leadership to officially Launch STRATUS – Our keynote speakers panel include Gary Washington, Chief Information Officer, Don Bitner, Chief Technology Officer, Dave Peters, Associate Chief Information Officer, Digital Infrastructure Services Center, and Kelli Petrie, Associate Chief Information Officer, Foreign Agriculture Service.  This distinguished panel will discuss strategy for Enterprise IT and Cloud Modernization using STRATUS across the Department of Agriculture and beyond.

Overview of STRATUS goals and Objectives

This panel illuminates the goals of the STRATUS program and the organizational changes to become a managed service provider and provide examples of how DISC operations align with the USDA strategic plan.

Customer Engagement, Enterprise Architecture, Security

This panel addresses how STRATUS enables a secure enterprise modernization approach, fosters data-driven decision making, builds portfolios and a repository of reusable code with a customer-centric approach.

Pipeline and Other Procurement Actions

This panel will focus on the STRATUS vendor pipeline and innovations in acquisition strategy to further develop and strengthen the STRATUS vendor community, including plans to on-ramp and off-ramp vendors throughout the ten-year lifespan of STRATUS.

Enterprise Buying, Service Delivery Management, Enterprise Vendor Management 

This panel will address how USDA is improving service delivery and leveraging buying power for the enterprise, an overview of the current Enterprise Buying, Service Delivery Management, and Enterprise Vendor Management initiatives.

Lunch

Breakout Sessions

Meet & Greet Contracting Officers and STRATUS Program Manager

Avail the opportunity to meet and greet the STRATUS Contracting Officers and STRATUS Program Manager. 

Breakout Session #1 – STRATUS 101

Learn about STRATUS pools and purchasing options.

Breakout Session #2 – ECVM Dashboards for Mission Areas

Learn about the Task Order Governance dashboard and the Enterprise Cloud Vendor Management (ECVM) dashboards in development.

Open to USDA ONLY. 

Breakout Session #3 – Getting Paid, Invoice Submission, BOA Compliance

Learn about STRATUS vendor invoice and BOA compliance expectations.

Breakout Session #4 – Security Governance, Category Management

Learn about security expectations, potential enterprise level buys, and commonly purchased software/SaaS at the USDA.

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