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NGA, Industry Collaborating On Simulation Of Open Cloud Computing For Disaster Response

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Friday, July 12th, 2013

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A team of private companies and a United States intelligence agency are testing the use of an open cloud computing infrastructure for simulating a multi-national disaster response effort to improve the ability to rapidly collaborate in a cloud environment, according to the organization leading the industry portion of the effort. Using unclassified information from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), the industry partners have created the simulation, which depicts a global, multidisciplinary response similar to the one that took place…

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