The US National Security Agency's (NSA) hybrid cloud platform is now operational. The project is an evolution of the NSA's on-premise GovCloud environment, introducing commercial cloud offerings. Chief finance manager at the NSA, Jennifer Kron, revealed that the initiative had launched during the 2024 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference in Omaha, Nebraska, on October 29.
Chief finance manager at the NSA, Jennifer Kron said: "This year it went live, and we are deploying mission with our partner. That’s our core mission services, our IC GovCloud, which provides hundreds of programs and systems that are used not only by NSA, but across the IC and [the Defense Department].”
“That might be commercial cloud, it could be C2E, it could be an NSA instance of a [top secret] cloud. It could be hardware-as-a-service for things that don’t quite work on commercial cloud. It could be on-prem. There’s a whole range of options. And so we’ve kind of evolved from saying, ‘No, we can’t do cloud that’s too open’ to ‘everything on the cloud,’ to really having a discernment as to what missions and what purposes should go into what which platform.”
