‘War game’ will determine if DoD can share well with others in the cloud
March 20, 2015
Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT. Author: Molly Bernhart Walker.
The Defense Department is pushing ahead with a plan that would permit commercial cloud computing providers operating in DoD facilities to serve non-federal government clients. So far, the department allows at least one commercial cloud provider to operate in Defense-owned and operated facility.
But the latest idea – described as a "commercial cloud distribution center" by DoD Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen – would take the operation a step further by allowing the data of clients like financial institutions on commercial clouds at DoD facilities. DoD has received several "very attractive" proposals, said Halvorsen during a March 18 press briefing, and the department will soon "walk through a war game of those proposals."…
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