NSA’s secret Amazon-developed cloud environment progressing ‘very well’
National Security Agency headquarters in Fort Meade, Md. NSA photo via Getty Images
By Frank Konkel and David DiMolfetta
Development of the National Security Agency’s commercial cloud environment is progressing “very well,” according to an official from Amazon Web Services, the company that ultimately won a contract valued at up to $10 billion from the clandestine signals intelligence agency in 2022.
“Our plans are tracking right now,” David Appel, vice president of U.S. Federal for Amazon Web Services, told Nextgov/FCW on the sidelines of the Billington Cybersecurity Summit earlier this month. AWS will continue building the physical infrastructure and cloud computing regions required under the massive contract over the next year.
“As those areas come online … it’s fundamentally changing the way that the agency has typically done work in the past,” Appel said. “It’s an area that really excites us.”
