Northrop Grumman Corporation signed an agreement with CA Technologies to help Northrop Grumman expand its cloud-based services in the health care, civil government, and state and local markets. Under the agreement, Northrop Grumman will be able to use CA CloudMinder(TM) to provide customers with a secure, cost-effective identity and access management (IAM) solution. CA CloudMinder(TM) is a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based service that provides user provisioning, self-service user management and an access request system; strong risk-based authentication; and federated single sign-on for both cloud-based and on-premise applications.

With identity federation and single sign-on, users can enter a single password to access any application, whether on the customer's government or company-owned cloud or on Northrop Grumman's cloud infrastructure. Northrop Grumman said it can securely and rapidly migrate and deploy existing and new applications on the cloud for its customers.