DoD
2 DoD Cloud Contracts Total Nearly $1 Billion
Migration of government agencies’ legacy applications to public clouds is a two-headed monster: one head is the procurement process, which can take months or years. The other is the ...Full Article
DoD Looks to Break Cloud Security ‘Bottleneck’
The Pentagon is looking for ways to recast is its cloud security guidelines as a way to accelerate the department's slow migration to cloud computing. Meanwhile, key cloud providers ...Full Article
CSRA Emerges as U.S. IT Powerhouse
A well connected IT services provider formed through the merger of established government contractors is steadily extending its reach from providing cloud services the U.S. military to training the ...Full Article
DARPA, Chipmakers Seek Path Beyond Moore’s Law
The U.S. military long ago ceded dominance in electronics innovation to Silicon Valley, the DoD-backed powerhouse that has driven microelectronic generation for decades. With Moore's Law clearly running out ...Full Article
Virtual ‘Workplace’ Aims to Speed Fed Cloud
As the federal government struggles to make the transition to the cloud, lessons learned during the relatively smooth transfer executed by U.S. intelligence agencies are slowly being applied to ...Full Article
Pentagon Readies New Cloud Plan
The Defense Department is preparing to issue a new strategy for procuring cloud services that reportedly downgrades the role of its current "cloud broker," giving more flexibility to individual ...Full Article
DOD Certifies AWS Cloud for ‘Sensitive’ Data
Amazon Web Services got the green light this week from the federal government to begin rolling out cloud services designed to handle "sensitive" workloads. AWS has announced that the ...Full Article
Some Cloud Vendors Will Miss FedRAMP Deadline
A June 5 deadline for federal agencies to comply with government cloud security and other U.S. standards could leave some major cloud vendors on the outside looking in. That ...Full Article
White House Puts $200 Million toward Military Manufacturing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/obamamanufacturing.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />We've known since Obama's State of the Union address this year that 3D printing is a key pillar in the president's ...Full Article
NREL’s Skynet Stays Cool with RackCDU
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is relocating its Skynet HPC cluster to a new datacenter at the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) in Golden, ...Full Article
