DoD Greenlights Cloud Computing Pilots for Sensitive Military Data
August 15, 2014
Grazed from FedTechMagazine. Author: Nicole Blake Johnson.
The Defense Department is seriously considering how it can move certain classifications of sensitive data into secure cloud environments operated by private companies. DoD’s acting CIO, Terry Halvorsen, said the department will announce five pilots within the next 20 days. “I won’t give you the exact timeline, but it could be the first of September,” Halvorsen told attendees Wednesday at the Federal Forum conference in Washington, D.C.
Halvorsen’s team received approval to begin testing how DoD can migrate level 3 and level 4 military data to the cloud. These classification levels are for controlled unclassified information (CUI), which includes data that are For Official Use Only (FOUO), Law Enforcement Sensitive (LES) or DoD Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information…
DoD likely won’t move this type of data into what Halvorsen calls the “standard, open cloud” or commercial cloud environment. Instead, DoD will host data in semi-private cloud or government-only clouds offered by the private sector…
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