Secure cloud national intelligence sharing

Challenge: Treasury’s Treasury Foreign Intelligence Network (TFIN) is used to share classified information with other agencies. Treasury’s bureaus and subagencies rely on the network to identify overseas threats to America’s economy and evaluate the impact of foreign sanctions. TFIN has suffered service disruptions, which often occur when the system is most used or under threat. Currently, the network is vulnerable to major power disruptions from the local power grid, maintaining the hardware-intensive system is cost-ineffective, and hosting TFIN locally is not aligned with performance and security best practices.

Approach: With TMF support, Treasury is transitioning to a hybrid cloud solution for a robust IT infrastructure and secure, decentralized network. Treasury is working to:

• Establish a contract with an enterprise cloud service accredited for classified workloads
• Migrate critical applications to a cloud provider for enhanced stability, processing, analytics, storage, and network cloud services
• Adopt a Software as a Service virtual desktop solution
• Be the first in the intelligence community to implement a cloud email productivity software solution
• Share lessons learned to inform other agencies in subsequent adoptions