BAE Systems and Dell [DVMT] EMC have partnered to offer the first scalable, hybrid cloud solution aimed at U.S. federal government customers.
The companies’ new “federated secure cloud” solution meets Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement requirements and looks to take advantage of increasing agency-level IT modernization.
“Our federated secure cloud is not just a modified commercial cloud environment for government use. It was designed from the start with high-assurance security in mind,” Al Whitmore, president of BAE’s intelligence & security sector, said in a statement. “Our solution arrives mission-ready and pre-engineered with the security credentials required to operate in a secure government environment.”
The new solution provides federal IT security administrators improved controls to monitor and track all software, hardware and user access on their cloud networks.
“The federated secure cloud gives agency network administrators an unparalleled level of awareness and security control,” BAE and Dell officials wrote in a statement. “Instead of managing, monitoring, and securing dozens of networks separately, the federated secure cloud administrators can instantly assess the performance of the entire cloud’s secure operating environment via specialized, user-friendly dashboards.”
BAE and Dell have said their cloud offering meets over 900 current security controls, including more than 30 Intelligence Community overlay controls needed for rapid deployment authorization.
The cloud offering includes security architecture that enables users to automate software patching, meant to reduce manual oversight and ease IT administration costs.
“When it comes to enterprise IT and cloud, U.S. government agencies want mission-ready turnkey solutions,” Steve Harris, Dell EMC’s general manager for federal business, said in a statement. “Our federated secure cloud arrives embedded with customizable Dell EMC and VMware technologies to meet an agency’s unique mission needs. This allows us to shorten the typical lead-time required to deliver and stand-up a federal cloud solution.”