BAE Systems and Dell EMC announced Monday a collaboration to offer a scalable, hybrid cloud solution for the U.S. government.
“Our federated secure cloud is not just a modified commercial cloud environment for government use,” Al Whitmore, president of BAE Systems’ Intelligence & Security sector, said. “It was designed from the start with high-assurance security in mind. Our solution arrives mission-ready and pre-engineered with the security credentials required to operate in a secure government environment.”
The federated secure cloud can power agency-level IT modernization or smaller, forward-operating units. It is designed to enable secure collaboration through common business applications and provide common access to mission-essential tools.
Its environment includes zero-anonymity security features for security administrators to monitor, track, and control software, hardware, and user access to their respective clouds.
The solution satisfies more than 900 security controls with more than 30 controls from Intelligence Community overlay subpart C (INT-C) for rapid deployment authorization. This architecture is designed to enable administrators to automate the process of facilitating patches and updates.
“When it comes to enterprise IT and cloud, U.S. government agencies want mission-ready turnkey solutions,” Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business, said. “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.”