Navy set to launch its first ‘cloud store’
February 23, 2016
Grazed from FederalNewsRadio. Author: Jared Serbu.
While the Defense Department has made some strides over the past year in simplifying the way it buys cloud computing services, individual DoD components are still, to a large extent, on their own when it comes to picking a provider and shepherding them through the military’s security approval process. The Navy hopes to change that beginning next month with a managed service it’s calling its “Cloud Store.”
Version 1.0 of the store will have a decidedly limited selection: its catalog will include just one provider, Amazon Web Services, leaning on an existing contract the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare System Command already holds with AWS…
But by the end of this calendar year, the Navy says it will open a 2.0 version that will feature multiple infrastructure-as-a-service providers and let Navy commands quickly sign up for services that are pre-authorized to handle information up to what DoD defines as “impact level 5” — one step below classified data…
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