The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is a member of the Intelligence Community of the United States, and is a major producer and manager of military intelligence for the United States Department of Defense, employing over 16,500 military and civilian employees worldwide. The Defense Intelligence Community is headed by the DIA, through its Director (who chairs the Military Intelligence Board), and coordinates the activities of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force intelligence components.

The DIA and Defense Intelligence Community provide military intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers and force planners within the Department of Defense and the United States Intelligence Community, in support of U.S. military planning and operations and weapon systems acquisition.

The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services. The primary mission of the Army is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities ... in support of the National Security and Defense Strategies."

The Army is a military service within the Department of the Army, one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense. The Army is headed by the Secretary of the Army, and the highest ranking military officer in the department is the Chief of Staff of the Army. In fiscal year 2010, the Regular Army reported a strength of 561,979 soldiers; the Army National Guard (ARNG) reported 362,015 and the United States Army Reserve (USAR) reported 205,281 putting the combined component strength total at 1,129,275 soldiers.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA was proposed by President Richard Nixon and began operation on December 3, 1970, after Nixon submitted a reorganization plan to Congress and it was ratified by committee hearings in the House and Senate. The agency is led by its Administrator, who is appointed by the president and approved by Congress. The agency has approximately 18,000 full-time employees.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is a United States Department of Defense agency that provides information technology (IT) and communications support to the President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense, the military Services, and the Combatant Commands. DISA, a Combat Support Agency, engineers and provides command and control capabilities and enterprise infrastructure to continuously operate and assure a global net-centric enterprise in direct support to joint warfighters, National level leaders, and other mission and coalition partners across the full spectrum of operations. Employment peaks at more than 12,000 military and civilian members.

DISA's Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE) is widely recognized as one of the first implementations of private cloud computing by the United States federal government. RACE, became operational in October 2008 under the joint guidance of DISA's Computing Services and Chief Technology Office. A user-self service, on-demand, provisioning portal allows DoD users to provision IT resources within its secured computing environment within 24 hours.

Behind the scenes, RACE contains a sophisticated Server Automation system. As a subcontractor to Hewlett Packard, August Schell engineers provided the heavy-lifting to get the Server Automation component operational.

DISA's Private Key Infrastructure (DoDPKI) is widely recognized as one of the worlds largest PKI implementations. August Schell engineers provided behind the scenes heavy-lifting PKI engineering support.