NNSA

Security, mobility and social networking are driving a new vision within the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) that’s led the department to embrace cloud computing.

This fall, the component within the Department of Energy that is responsible for the security and reliability of the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons will begin rolling out a major component of its new Network Vision – YourCloud. Keep reading →


Several panels of technology experts at the annual FOSE convention in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday predicted the present hodge-podge of cloud deployments in government will eventually lead to more agility, mobility and big changes in the business model.

Cloud computing is…increasing the agility of [government] IT,” said Ravi Kumar, group marketing director at VMware, whose virtualization products are designed to build cloud infrastructures. Keep reading →


David Gardy for FedEdTV and TV Worldwide interviewed Travis Howerton and Anil Karmel, both CTOs at the National Nuclear Security Administration on the exposition floor at the annual FOSE conference in Washington, D.C. this week.

Among topics they discussed were cybersecurity, cloud computing and mobility. Keep reading →

This article was originally published by FedInsider.

CIOs often say that cybersecurity should be built into software and systems, and not thought of as a later add-on. In practice this ideal is seldom reached. But the National Nuclear Security Administration is in the midst of a three-pronged IT initiative to both modernize its infrastructure and get closer to having cybersecurity baked in. Keep reading →