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DISA Taps Booz Allen Hamilton For Thunderdome Zero Trust Prototype Program

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, January 26th, 2022

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DISA Taps Booz Allen Hamilton For Thunderdome Zero Trust Prototype Program

DISA headquarters at Ft. Meade, Md. Photo: Army.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] a $6.8 million prototype deal to work on developing a new zero-trust security architecture. Under the deal, announced on Wednesday, Booz Allen Hamilton will work with DISA over the next six months on operationally testing the zero-trust architecture, called Thunderdome, to ensure its scalability across the Pentagon. “Thunderdome reflects a substantial shift to a next generation cybersecurity and network architecture for DoD,” Chris Barnhurst, DISA’s deputy director, said in…

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