Serious change is afoot in the intelligence community. Some of the most opaque federal organizations are doing what might have sounded crazy five years ago: They’re moving their classified, sensitive information — some of it, at least — off their own servers and into the cloud. Moreover, they will be sharing that information with one another.
“They” are a powerful group formerly known as the Quad: the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office and National Security Agency. Now that the CIA has joined the consortium, they are known as the Quint.
Spurred by financial pressure and an increasingly mobile, tech-oriented workforce, the Quint is trying to break out of the “silos of secrecy” so they can find new ways to achieve their missions.
via Federal Computer Week, continued here.
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