Army CIO Issues Cross Domain Solution as a Service Policy

Cross domain hybrid application framework

The Problem – Data Aggregation on the Low-Side  The UK Government collects vast amounts of data at the OFFICIAL security level. When aggregated, this data may create intelligence value that could be exploited by cyber threat actors, posing risks to national security. This challenge extends beyond the UK Government, affecting international collaborations like Five Eyes (FVEY). To mitigate these risks, appropriate security measures must be impleme…

Army CIO Issues Cross Domain Solution as a Service Policy

Leonel Garciga, the U.S. Army’s chief information officer and a 2025 Wash100 awardee, has released a memorandum outlining the policy for using Cross Domain Solution as a Service, or CDSaaS, across the military branch. What Is CDSaaS? CDSaaS is a cloud computing-based platform that cloud service providers offer as a service to government organizations to facilitate the transfer of information across two or more different classification domains. T…