Amazon to launch second secret cloud region, touting AI innovation for national security
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard touted classified cloud capabilities such as AWS's as key in the IC's ability to drive AI innovation.
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Oracle approved to handle government secret-level data
The accreditation puts Oracle on a level playing field with its top competitors in the federal cloud space — Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Google gets authorization to work with top-secret intelligence, defense data
Defense and intelligence agencies will now be able to use Google’s air-gapped cloud platform to process top-secret workloads.
DOD wants to place virtual sensors in AWS’s commercial cloud for a secure connection
DISA will place sensors in AWS's cloud to monitor "workloads hosted therein." It's not a purchase of services, but it's sign the Pentagon expects to do more…
Microsoft says it’s close to Secret-level cloud authorization
Azure Government Secret is in what the company calls "private preview and pending accreditation."
DOD IG: Unsecured classified access points put lives at risk
A lack of "logical or physical security safeguards could pose a risk to the life and safety of DoD personnel," says a new report.
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DOD clarifies security requirements to compete for $8B back-office cloud
There's good news for potential DEOS cloud vendors who don't yet meet the military's level 6 security requirements.
DISA looks to industry for support on classified mobility program
The agency is proposing a single-award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to support the Department of Defense Mobility Classified Capability (DMCC) programs for secret and top secret…