State Department WikiLeaks Countermeasures, Extreme-Scale Computing, and More
by AlexOlesker
April 6, 2012
Cyber Security, FedCyber Wire, Financial, Requirements, Responses, Solution Providers, Spending, Technology
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April 6, 2012
Cyber Security, FedCyber Wire, Financial, Requirements, Responses, Solution Providers, Spending, Technology
No Comment
- State Department CIO Susan Swart says that since WikiLeaks the agency has been working on improving security for its classified networks and systems with measures such as auditing and monitoring tools, tagging information with metadata to enable role-based access, and an effort to implement public key infrastructure by summer 2014. More here.
- The Army awarded Area Processing Centers Army Private Cloud (APC2) contracts for mobile data centers that come in shipping containers to HP, IBM, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, MicroTech, Lockheed Martin, and Criterion Systems. More here.
- The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services is requiring local law enforcement agencies to encrypt their data if they want to join the FBI’s cloud. More here.
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has announced a Request for Proposals (RFP) and $60 million for research in processors, memory, and storage to enable extreme-scale computing. More here.