Vulcan was launched in 2022 by DISA’s Hosting and Compute Center (HACC). Vulcan is currently offering open-source tools through GitLab, but has received an IL-5 accreditation by DISA’s Risk Management Executive (RME).

DISA found it is cost prohibitive for DoD software development teams to deploy and maintain their own SaaS tools at IL-5. The most cost-effective tool would be to have a SaaS tool directly from cloud service providers (CSPs), but there is nothing available at IL-4 and IL-5.

Vulcan is not a platform akin to Platform One, rather it is a straight SaaS DevSecOps play. Vulcan is not hosting development, test, staging, production, data, etc.

The DoD quietly rolled out git.mil, which had 2400 users as of late 2022 and is adding about 200 users a month. Vulcan is being built out using infrastructure as code.

Funding for Vulcan moved to the Defense Working Capital Fund in FY24.