Government Cloud

The Center for Internet Security has added its “hardened” virtual images to Amazon Web Services‘ cloud marketplace for U.S. government customers. CIS said Wednesday its CIS Hardened Images are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) marketplace and have been accessible to other customers through the AWS Marketplace since 2015. CIS Hardened Images are types of Amazon Machine Images […] More

The Defense Department has issued a draft request for proposals for a single-award contract to procure commercial enterprise-level cloud services in support of agencies within DoD and service branches. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud program is a potential 10-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that has a base term of two […] More

Oracle‘s federal managed cloud services business has received an 18-month provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s risk assessment and certification office. DISA said Tuesday it granted the conditional approval to the company’s cloud service offering for impact-level 5 data workloads. Oracle CSO is platform-as-a-service delivery model that employs shared service zones intended for a […] More

CSRA has received a provisional authorization from the Defense Department to deploy and operate a cloud platform. The provisional Impact Level 5 Systems certification from DoD allows CSRA’s milCloud 2.0 to host military applications and national security platforms that store mission critical data and controlled unclassified information, the company said Tuesday. Larry Prior, CSRA president […] More

Microsoft has made its Microsoft 365 package available for U.S. government cloud environments. Josh Rice, general manager of Microsoft’s worldwide modern workplace, wrote in a news release published Monday the Microsoft 356 package includes Windows 10, Enterprise Mobility + Security and Office 365 offerings designed to help government agencies meet U.S. security and compliance requirements. Microsoft […] More

The Customs and Border Protection has posted a request for information on cloud services providers that can help the agency migrate its applications out of a data center. CBP said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice that it aims to move all of its on-premises applications from the office of information and technology’s National Data Center complex […] More

TalaTek has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer the company’s enterprise security compliance management platform to government agencies. Enterprise Compliance Management Solution is designed to help customers manage risks and comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act, FedRAMP and other security requirements, TalaTek said Monday. ECMS works to provide real-time risk management assistance and visibility into […] More

Five companies have gained priority status to work with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Joint Authorization Board to offer cloud products to the federal government. FedRAMP’s program management office said Feb. 15 it chose the five cloud service providers as part of the FedRAMP Connect program based on existing and potential government customer demand for their products […] More