Dana Deasy, chief information officer at the Department of Defense, announced on Monday the launch of a new strategy that aims to migrate storage and computing operations to the cloud. The DoD Cloud Strategy "addresses what we're trying to do, … the problems we're trying to solve and the objectives [we want to meet]," Deasy said in a statement published Monday. Deasy, a 2019 Wash100 winner, discussed how the new initiative will help advance the adoption of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud platform, ensure cybersecurity and implement digital modernization efforts, including the development of artificial intelligence-based applications. "By having an enterprise cloud, it's what we put on top of it -- in this case, artificial intelligence -- [so] it's almost a fundamental imperative to have a cloud in place to do great things with AI," he said. Dana Deasy will be featured as a keynote speaker during Potomac Officers Club's upcoming Artificial Intelligence Summit on February 13th at the Hilton-McLean in McLean, Va.