Together, Second Front and DAF CLOUDworks are establishing a scalable, secure pathway for the Department of War (DoW) and the Intelligence Community (IC) to rapidly operationalize commercial software across classified and unclassified environments. By integrating Game Warden into DAF CLOUDworks’ infrastructure, the partnership enables software to move more efficiently across mission environments without restarting security and deployment processes from scratch. This helps reduce infrastructure duplication, lower operational burden on technical security teams, and accelerate the delivery of critical capabilities to the field.

“Mission advantage depends on speed, trust, and the ability to move software into the environments where it is needed without unnecessary friction,” said Mamie Cruse, chief mission officer at Second Front. “Our partnership with DAF CLOUDworks strengthens how the DoW and IC can securely operationalize commercial software across classified and unclassified environments with greater speed and consistency. This is about accelerating how critical capabilities move from innovation to mission use.”

As software becomes increasingly central to mission execution, trusted pathways for secure software delivery are essential to ensuring operators can access critical capabilities where and when they are needed. This partnership reflects a shared commitment between Second Front and DAF CLOUDworks to modernize how software moves across regulated mission environments and reduce the friction that slows operational capability from reaching users.

“Deploying 2F Game Warden across DAF CLOUDworks’ unclassified and classified environments strengthens how we deliver secure, mission-ready software to the enterprise,” said Andrew Vanderhoof, director of DAF CLOUDworks. “Through this partnership, we are creating a repeatable approach for integrating commercial applications that improves speed, consistency, and scalability while helping the DoW and IC more effectively operationalize innovation. Game Warden enables us to bring these technologies into secure environments faster while reducing friction for government teams responsible for software delivery.”

Source: Second Front Systems

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Historically, deploying commercial software into Top Secret environments, such as JWICS, has required years of repetitive security assessments, duplicative paperwork, and custom one-off integrations—an exhausting process that drains resources, delays innovation, and often prevents critical tools from reaching end-users. By leveraging Game Warden’s pre-authorized platform, Millabs was able to inherit robust security controls and accelerate deployment into JWICS. They deployed far faster than traditional paths—removing barriers and putting advanced capabilities directly into the hands of operators when they’re needed most.

“Game Warden proves that getting commercial innovation into classified environments is not only possible, but repeatable,” said Mamie Cruse, EVP of mission success at Second Front. “With Millabs now live on JWICS, analysts have secure, rapid access to the modern tools they need to make smarter, faster decisions—and we’re excited to continue delivering these outcomes at scale.”

“At Millabs, our mission has always been to bridge commercial and government capabilities—strengthening warfighter lethality and ensuring decision makers have the confidence and quality of information they need,” said Robert Burckner, president of Millabs. “By partnering with Second Front, we were able to navigate the government’s stringent compliance requirements with ease, freeing us to focus on delivering our core services. Compared to traditional pathways, Game Warden significantly reduced operating costs and accelerated capability delivery. Its trusted security framework allows us to continuously provide our tools to customers, seamlessly integrating new capabilities across multiple information environments—including JWICS—so we can deliver impact where and when it matters most.”

Source: Second Front Systems

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Legacy systems cannot provide the speed, scale, and application development agility required to preserve decision and intelligence advantages. A recent case study from the U.S. Department of Defense found that legacy systems can take years to adapt to mission needs. In order to maintain operational advantages amid an increasingly dynamic and complex world, U.S. national security and intelligence agencies need the flexibility to respond quickly to evolving mission needs.

Hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Top Secret cloud – a dedicated cloud infrastructure accredited to operate Top Secret Workloads – Government Cloud Premium helps agencies enhance information sharing, gain mission-critical data insights, and speed up operations while helping meet the highest standards of security and compliance. Government Cloud Premium will provide intelligence agencies with a strategic advantage.

“The work of our national security and intelligence communities could not be more important, and we are deeply committed to ensuring they have the tools they need to drive mission success. With Government Cloud Premium, U.S. national security and intelligence customers can now transform operations and move at mission speed with reliable, secure, and compliant capabilities,” said Bill Pessin, senior vice president, Salesforce National Security.

Source: Salesforce

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With fully redundant and geographically dispersed data centers, Oracle National Security Regions (ONSRs) are secured to the highest U.S. government classification levels for Top Secret/SCI workloads and are supported by government-cleared U.S. citizens, and only connected to U.S. government classified networks. Operations are performed from securely managed Cloud Network Operations Centers (CNOCs) by US Government-cleared engineers.

This new accreditation provides the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community access to Oracle Cloud innovations and expands Oracle’s enterprise accreditations to support unclassified, controlled unclassified information (CUI), and top-secret workloads. Oracle also offers customers access to dedicated cloud regions authorized at FedRAMP High/DISA IL2-4, DISA IL 5, and FedRAMP+.

TS/SCI authorization brings the Intelligence Community and the DoD closer to achieving their multicloud vision and accelerates adoption of commercial innovation for sensitive missions. Oracle’s next-generation cloud delivers consistent high performance and resiliency for data-centric and performance-hungry national security systems on a cybersecurity infrastructure architected with Zero Trust principles.

With this new authorization, the Intelligence Community gains access to more than 50 Oracle Cloud services on Top Secret networks, with more services planned to become available in a continuous accreditation process. These services include not only core-networking, compute, and storage services, but also a broad range of integrated and modern cloud native services to advance mission success.

Source: Oracle

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 “This is a major milestone for us in the development of SHIFT, and we are excited to be able to deliver the first truly full-scale emulation platform to serve the Secret and Top Secret needs of customers,” said Adam Gruber, CTO of Applied Insight. “Applied Insight’s focus is on meeting the changing needs of our customers, and we will continue to seek ways to further enhance and innovate our platforms for their ongoing mission success.” 

 SHIFT is used by government and commercial customers to develop, test and remediate software prior to deploying it in the classified regions of government clouds. The platform provides detailed feedback on interactions that a customer’s workload makes within these environments, greatly reducing time and costs by eliminating rework and reconfigurations. The inclusion of GEOAxIS expands SHIFT’s reach throughout the Secret cloud region. SHIFT has been recognized by the 2020 Government Innovation Awards for its groundbreaking cloud technology developments. Applied Insight continues to update and enhance the SHIFT platform for improved user experience and efficiency.   

 Applied Insight has recently partnered with government technology solutions company Vertosoft to expand distribution of SHIFT to federal government customers. Vertosoft specializes in helping government organizations rapidly gain access to advanced and emerging technology. The company provides streamlined access to these solutions through a wide variety of government contract vehicles, including GSA IT Schedule 70, The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS) contract, U.S. Army ITES-SW2 and others. 

Source: Applied Insight

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