Government Cloud

CSRA has won a potential three-year, $34.7 million blanket purchase agreement for cloud computing services to Department of the Navy research and development enterprise. The Defense Department said Friday CSRA will help the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific to establish a cloud brokerage for 16 Navy warfare centers under the DON Cloud Services […] More

The Internal Revenue Service has begun its search for potential sources of software-as-a-service applications designed to run on a Microsoft-built cloud platform. A presolicitation notice posted Thursday on FedBizOpps says IRS plans to buy several SaaS cloud offerings that include PowerBI, Project Online, Office applications, SharePoint Online, Cloud Private Branch Exchange, Skype for Business, Visio, […] More

Microsoft has launched its specialized storage account service in the US Gov Virginia region of the Azure Government cloud environment. Kyle Deeds, a program manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that the Blob Storage accounts feature has been enabled in three regions including US Gov Arizona and US Gov Texas. Blob […] More

Science Applications International Corp. and Vazata have partnered to offer government agencies a cloud technology platform certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. SAIC can distribute Virtual Secure Cloud Platform, for which Vazata secured provisional authority to operate through FedRAMP, as part of the partnership deal, Vazata said Wednesday. The agreement also designates Vazata as the exclusive […] More

Microsoft has launched a new cloud-based hybrid network monitoring platform on the Azure Government Cloud-Virginia environment. Sarah Weldon, Azure program manager at Microsoft, said in a blog post published Tuesday that the Network Performance Monitor system helps users observe the connectivity between cloud deployments, data centers, multi-tier applications, user locations and web-based applications. Weldon noted […] More

The House of Representatives has begun to solicit proposals from potential vendors that can provide services to support the lower chamber’s migration to a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-certified cloud platform. The House’s office of the chief administrative officer announced plans to move from the CAO-hosted public web environment to a platform-as-a-service-based cloud system through […] More

A new Deltek report says the number of cloud platforms that comply with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program rose from 106 in fiscal 2014 to 315 in fiscal 2016. That figure represents a 197 percent growth in the number of FedRAMP-compliant cloud offerings in use at federal agencies compared with the 45 percent increase in non-FedRAMP compliant […] More

Juniper Networks has begun to offer a security and micro-segmentation platform designed to protect cloud-based applications. The Juniper Contrail Security tool works to employ automated application traffic discovery and policy enforcement to mitigate threats facing applications that run on cloud environments, Juniper said Tuesday. Contrail Security offers threat prevention, policy management, visibility and control to help […] More

SpringCM has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to deliver a cloud-based contract and document management platform to federal agencies. The FedRAMP moderate-impact level authorization for SpringCM seeks to help agencies streamline workflows and business processes as well as meet the federal government’s security requirements, the company said Tuesday. “Manually managing documents creates […] More

BAE Systems and Microsoft have teamed up to facilitate the delivery of the latter’s Office 365 suite of software platforms and services to the intelligence community in support of the U.S. government’s IC Desktop Environment program that seeks to integrate intelligence agencies through a single cloud environment. Jonathan Morse, director of business architecture at BAE […] More

Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, has said the company’s Australian operations will receive infrastructure upgrades to meet anticipated customer demand, The Australian Financial Review reported Monday. Carlson told the publication that AWS constantly evolves its cloud infrastructure in Australia as part of efforts to “innovate ahead of demand […] More