IBM is the only private company with an adequate authorization to offer certain private cloud services to the US Army. Because of that position, it's been able to sign a new 5-year $62 million deal with the US Army that'll see it manage a cloud data center at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
This contract is only available to contractors with a Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Impact Level 5 (IL-5) Provisional Authorization. IBM is the only company with that authorization.
Its cloud is currently able to handle "controlled, unclassified information." But it's believed IBM will reach IL-6 within a year, allowing it to handle "secret" documents as well.
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