Furthering GSA’s mission to better serve our partners and deliver better value and savings, yesterday the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) granted the second Joint Authorization Board (JAB) provisional cloud security authorization to CGI Federal.  The JAB provisional authorization covers CGI’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings including virtual machines and web-hosting capabilities, available for agencies to acquire from the GSA IaaS Blanket Purchase Agreement.  This second authorization will further accelerate federal adoption of secure cloud solutions by providing a consistent, efficient security authorization process that can be leveraged by agencies across government. http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/gsablog/2013/01/31/gsas-fedramp-issues-second-authorization/