I work with a USAF organization, helping them to gain a footing in cloud computing. It's not going so well, held up in large part by the Department of Informat

I work with a USAF organization, helping them to gain a footing in cloud computing. It's not going so well, held up in large part by the Department of Information Systems (DISA). They have a "cloud" environment that they want any DoD entity to migrate to if that entity is thinking about going to the cloud. Amazon has authority to host Level 1 and 2 data, which is a fancy term the DoD uses for "Public, Releasable information." They have PROVISIONAL authority to host Levels 3-5 data, which refers to For Official Use Only (FOUO) data. Amazon has spent untold amounts of money passing various DoD-level certification packages like FedRAMP which looks at everything from physical security to how they prepare their invoices. AFAIK they are the only company to do such a thing. As of now, unless you have a waiver from a General, you can't host your DoD system on AWS. We tried to enroll in DoD's pilot program for cloud computing, but were rejected because we didn't have a Colonel backing us.