DoD’s new cloud policy coming in two weeks
November 7, 2014
Grazed from FederalTimes. Author: Aaron Boyd.
The Department of Defense will be releasing an updated cloud computing policy within the next two weeks, acting department CIO Terry Halvorsen said Thursday. The re-write of the 2012 policy is intended to speed up the procurement process by giving more purchasing authority to individual agencies.
“I was not really thrilled with the original cloud policy that came out,” Halvorsen said. “Mostly because I don’t think we were getting the cloud fast enough.” Noting that you should be careful what you wish for, Halvorsen was tasked with revamping the existing policy to speed up the process without sacrificing agencies’ strict security needs…
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