Air Force to establish cloud computing research center of excellence
U.S. Air Force researchers want to establish a research center of excellence in assured cloud computing, and they are looking to partner with a college or university to host and collaborate in assured cloud computing research.
The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y., issued a broad agency announcement (BAA-10-10-RIKA) Friday, which seeks to establish a University Center of Excellence (UCoE) in Assured Cloud Computing to do research not only in secure computing over blue and/or gray networks, but also whatever is necessary to accomplish Air Force cloud computing.
AFRL researchers want to determine if critical mission information can reach its destination through the computer cloud with predictable latency, rather than packets simply reaching their destinations, without leading to system instability.
The UCoE in Assured Cloud Computing will be joint effort of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in Arlington, Va.,, the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y., and a college or university.
This collaborative group will do high-priority Air Force research in information assurance for virtual machines and for internet-based and intranet-based computing to help understand how network information exchange influences overall network performance and behavior.
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