Another Defense Agency to Tap CIA's Commercial Cloud

NextGov: The U.S. Army agency responsible for providing military intelligence on foreign ground forces plans to use the C2S Cloud—the same cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the CIA and intelligence community.

The Army’s National Ground Intelligence Agency issued a one-year task order earlier this month to purchase cloud services from the Amazon-developed cloud at the unclassified, secret and top secret classification levels.

NGIA will become the second Defense agency—after U.S Transportation Command—to move classified data or applications to the C2S cloud, and could facilitate further cloud computing adoption across the Army.

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