Cloud

A decade-old risk led to ‘phenomenal partnership’ between AWS and the intel community

The move to bring highly classified systems to the cloud was uncharted territory for both the company and the CIA.

Cloud and AI are ‘fundamentally changing’ ability to forecast weather, NOAA chief says

Half of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s environmental data now runs on AWS.

Army aims to move its pay system to the cloud by 2027

Oracle will soon host the service’s HR systems, under the Pentagon’s biggest cloud contracting vehicle.

Salesforce launches new top secret cloud environment

The software company said it is the first provider to deliver a true commercial cloud that has received Top Secret accreditation with platform- and software-as-a-service capabilities for the intelligence community.

Google announces AI offering for classified environments

A “large percentage” of U.S. military and intelligence agencies briefed on the upcoming Gemini version expressed interest in the tool, a Google executive said.

How FedRAMP is evolving to meet the challenges of the cloud computing market

Updates to federal cloud security policy are laying the foundation for a more secure and resilient cloud ecosystem.

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NSA’s secret Amazon-developed cloud environment progressing ‘very well’

The agency's $10 billion cloud program dubbed “WildandStormy" is benefiting from the intelligence community's dozen years of experience in commercial cloud, an AWS official said.

GSA further details its plan for Ascend cloud program

Software-as-a-service vendors and providers of cloud-related IT professional services are who the General Services Administration wants to hear from now.

CIA looks to fast track AI adoption through cloud contract

A CIA official said the agency is working with the five recipients of its Commercial Cloud Enterprise contract to “get commercial [large language models] up into our high-side environments.”

The Pentagon’s IT agency looks to expand cloud offshore

The agency has been expanding services outside the continental U.S. while reworking tools to ease data access.

Pentagon planning huge experiment for its connect-everything concept

“We see significant progress,” in opening up DOD data, one observer said. But a bigger, multinational test is coming.

Microsoft, Palantir partner to expand AI offerings to defense and intelligence agencies

The new suite of offerings will be available on Microsoft’s Azure Government and Azure Government Secret and Top Secret clouds.

Air Force seeks secure cloud app to manage flights for govt VIPs

The new tool is critical “due to significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified in the existing scheduling system,” the branch says in a notice for industry.

Treasury’s funding request for IRS cloud tech far outpaces other civilian agencies, report says

Treasury’s request is the largest out of a combined federal civilian total of almost $9 billion for cloud-related programs in their fiscal year 2025 IT budget requests.

OMB rewrites cloud buying rulebook

The FedRAMP program received its first major update in more than a decade

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Biden briefed on CrowdStrike IT outage as multiple federal systems impacted

Social Security offices are closed for the day due to the incident. It will be “time-consuming” for all affected systems to undo the damage because the process is manual, one expert says.

Treasury looks to help the financial sector move to the cloud

Among the potential risks: market concentration among cloud service providers.