DEA canvasses industry for cloud options to store sensitive crime data
July 9, 2014
Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT. Author: Henry Kenyon.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is planning to make its first tentative steps into the federal cloud computing arena as it seeks a solution to store sensitive crime data. In a request released July 7, the DEA is surveying cloud providers for the most cost-efficient way to shift data to an agency-wide hybrid cloud. One of the major nodes in this proposed cloud architecture will be the DEA’s Sterling Park Technology Center, or SPTC.
The agency wants to move its eGIS capability – a Google Earth-based crime information system that uses geospatial mapping data to tag crime and suspect location data – to the cloud. eGIS is currently hosted at SPTC, but the goal is to create a secondary site hosted on a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-compliant government community cloud run by an authorized commercial cloud service provider…
The DEA is looking for firms to provide "infrastructure-as-a-service" capabilities that combine software and hardware support…
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