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  • Amazon Web Services Can Now Host the Defense Department’s Most Sensitive Data

    09/15/2017 8:25:22 AM PDT · by PIF · 16 replies
    Next Gov ^ | September 13, 2017 | Frank Konkel
    Share this on LinkedIn Print this article Email this article Increase size Amazon Web Services has a new market for its cloud computing, analytics, and storage services. This week, the Defense Department granted the cloud computing giant a provisional authorization to host Impact Level 5 workloads, which are the military and Pentagon’s most sensitive, unclassified information. “This further bolsters AWS as an industry leader in helping support the DoD’s critical mission in protecting our security,” the company said in a statement. “The AWS services support a variety of DoD workloads, including workloads containing sensitive controlled unclassified information and National Security...
  • Not-so-Petty cash to rock bat mitzvah ($10 million! for coming out party)

    11/30/2005 1:14:12 PM PST · by NYer · 104 replies · 3,466+ views
    NY Daily News ^ | November 29, 2005
    History will forever record Elizabeth Brooks' bat mitzvah as "Mitzvahpalooza." For his daughter's coming-of-age celebration last weekend, multimillionaire Long Island defense contractor David H. Brooks booked two floors of the Rainbow Room, hauled in concert-ready equipment, built a stage, installed special carpeting, outfitted the space with Jumbotrons and arranged command performances by everyone from 50 Cent to Tom Petty to Aerosmith. I hear it was garish display of rock 'n' roll idol worship for which the famously irascible CEO of DHB Industries, a Westbury-based manufacturer of bulletproof vests, sent his company jet to retrieve Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry...