Executive Mosaic Unveils Cloud Infrastructure Group for 4×24 Leadership Program—An Elite GovCon Community

Aug 18, 2026

4x24 Cloud Group. Executive Mosaic announces the new Cloud Infrastructure Group for its 4x24 Leadership Program.

Executive Mosaic is thrilled to announce the new Cloud Infrastructure Group for its 4×24 Leadership Program, the exclusive membership organization that connects senior vice president and C-suite GovCon executives with each other and the federal customer on a deeper level.

The 4×24 Leadership Program’s Cloud Infrastructure Group focuses on the rapidly-emerging opportunity within the GovCon community to support the outsourcing of mission-critical IT infrastructure. This shift is already driving hundreds of billions of dollars in spending through contracts like the National Security Agency’s Wild and Stormy and Department of War’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, a.k.a. JWCC, formerly known as JEDI.

Melissa Palmer. Melissa is the chair of the new 4x24 Cloud Infrastructure Group
Melissa Palmer, vice president of public sector for HashiCorp, an IBM company

Chaired by Melissa Palmer, vice president of public sector for HashiCorp, an IBM company, the new 4×24 Cloud Infrastructure Group is centered around two key themes: how AI workloads are transforming cloud infrastructure and how non-human identities, or agentic AI, are impacting federal cloud requirements.

Why Is Cloud a Critical Sector of Government Contracting?

Cloud is a robust and growing market in federal contracting. Government spending on cloud goods and services is expected to rise roughly 7 percent from $19.6 billion in fiscal year 2026 to $21 billion in FY 2028, according to Deltek’s Federal Cloud Computing Market 2026–2028 report.

“AI will definitely continue to drive the cloud workloads and adoption,” Palmer said. “I think we don’t even know how big it could be yet.”

Cloud infrastructure, such as the servers, storage, networking and virtualization that power cloud computing, increasingly shifts costs from predictable upfront capital investment to variable, pay-as-you-go consumption. This offers flexibility, but can introduce cost uncertainty as usage scales.

This shift is also constrained and shaped by the underlying energy and physical infrastructure needs for data centers themselves, including power availability, cooling capacity, land and grid interconnection. These are becoming critical factors in where, and how quickly, new capacity can be built.

To meet federal requirements around security, compliance and technical performance, the new 4×24 Cloud Infrastructure Group will examine how industry—including data centers, cloud and network providers, integrators, and energy and utility providers—is coming together to adapt to these requirements in support of the DOW, intelligence community and federal civilian agencies.

What Does the 4×24 Cloud Infrastructure Group Want to Accomplish?

The 4×24 Cloud Infrastructure Group will bring together the most influential federal technology officials for exclusive insights and lively discussions on the essential topics driving federal cloud computing. Palmer plans to examine what percentage of federal agencies’ workloads have moved to a commercial or government cloud. She also plans to structure the group to have equal representation between FedCiv agencies and the Pentagon and IC.

Palmer is prioritizing government engagement as the new Cloud Group’s “north star.”

“It’s bilateral,” she said. “I want government executives who speak at these dinners to walk away with just as much from interacting with industry as industry gets from directly learning the government’s initiatives and challenges.”

What Are Some Major Federal Cloud Computing Business Opportunities?

There are a couple major federal cloud contracting opportunities on the horizon. The Bureau of Indian Education seeks to procure a commercially-available adult education instructional software platform to support the adult education component of the Family and Child Education Program.

The Air Force is seeking information from industry about modernizing the USAF Weather Cloud agile and secure operational information ecosystem for a future contract. A third that GovCon cloud service providers should put on their radars is the Defense Information Systems Agency’s market research for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability Unified Cloud Marketplace, or JWCC UCM, program.

What Is the 4×24 Leadership Program?

The 4×24 Leadership Program is the must-join membership organization for GovCon technology executives. It provides exclusive access to key decision-makers controlling billions of dollars in contracts and provides a look behind the scenes of leading federal agencies like the DOW, DHS, the IC and FedCiv.

The elegant dinner sessions, with their small, intimate formats, ensure members get their pressing questions answered and helps build relationships that shorten sales cycles. No worrying about busy speakers rushing out for their next meeting.

Why Should I Join the 4×24 Leadership Program?

Executives of consequence should join the 4×24 Leadership Program to learn about, and plan for, emerging requirements and competitions before they’re publicly announced. Get to know top federal decision-makers on a first-name basis. One contract win can offset years of membership.

Membership in the 4×24 Leadership Program positions executives to:

  • Access new sales opportunities
  • Align with the customer on personnel, marketing, business development, internal R&D spending, and more
  • Craft proposals to show how your product or solutions can solve the most critical mission challenges
  • Win more contracts

Discover how this must-have leadership program is essential to growing your GovCon business. Start your 4×24 Leadership Program journey today.

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