The Pentagon wants a secure digital space to easily share classified information with allies and partners. But antiquated policies and fluid dynamics of military diplomacy have made that very challenging.

“Overall, we've done a fairly good job of rolling out cloud capabilities to the [ Impact Level ] 4 or 5 [unclassified] environment and to the IL 6 [classified] environment,” said John Hale, the Defense Information Systems Agency’s head of product management and development Thursday at Defense One’s Cloud Workshop event . “But where we kind of missed the ball…would be in that coalition world—at the IL 6 level. And so, we're putting a lot of focus right now on how do we solve the cloud capability related specifically to the coalition mission partners at the classified level.”

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