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The U.S. Department of State awards C3 IoT platform and applications contract

By TechTaffy Desk

The U.S. Department of State has awarded C3 IoT a multi-year contract up to $25 million to provide the C3 IoT enterprise application development platform. This is a Federal Government enterprise-wide contract to deploy energy management and predictive analytics technology globally.

Under the terms of the agreement, C3 IoT will enable the U.S. Department of State to gain real-time operational insights by analyzing data from enterprise and extraprise systems and sensors across 22,000+ Department facilities in 190+ countries.

In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), C3 IoT will deploy and operate the C3 IoT Platform and software applications in AWS GovCloud (U.S.), an isolated AWS region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, ensuring compliance with U.S. government requirements, including International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).

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