diff --git a/buildsystem/spack/ascent/install.sh b/buildsystem/spack/ascent/install.sh
index dec97839..2e805694 100755
--- a/buildsystem/spack/ascent/install.sh
+++ b/buildsystem/spack/ascent/install.sh
@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@
 #BSUB -o spack_install.%J.output
 #BSUB -e spack_install.%J.output
 
+# Configure https proxy because spack is going to do some things with git
+export all_proxy="socks://proxy.ccs.ornl.gov:3128"
+export ftp_proxy="ftp://proxy.ccs.ornl.gov:3128"
+export http_proxy="http://proxy.ccs.ornl.gov:3128"
+export https_proxy="http://proxy.ccs.ornl.gov:3128"
+export HTTP_PROXY="http://proxy.ccs.ornl.gov:3128"
+export HTTPS_PROXY="http://proxy.ccs.ornl.gov:3128"
+export proxy="proxy.ccs.ornl.gov:3128"
+export no_proxy='localhost,127.0.0.0/8,*.ccs.ornl.gov,*.olcf.ornl.gov,*.ncrc.gov'
+
 export MY_CLUSTER=ascent
 . buildsystem/load-spack.sh &&
 spack mirror add local file://$SPACK_MIRROR &&
@@ -16,4 +26,3 @@ spack mirror add spack-public file://$SPACK_MIRROR &&
 spack mirror list &&
 spack develop --no-clone --path=$(pwd) resolve@develop &&
 jsrun -n 1 -c 40 ./buildsystem/configure-modules.sh 40
-