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New Offering Now Licensed Agency-Wide at the National Institutes of Health
A new edition of LabArchives, called LabArchives for Government, is now officially FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) authorized at the moderate security-impact level and has been adopted by the National Institute of Health (NIH) as its agency-wide, centrally-supported, multi-discipline, SaaS electronic laboratory notebook (ELN).
LabArchives for Government provides security-and-compliant editions of LabArchives ELN, Inventory, and Scheduler that have passed FedRAMP’s rigorous government and third-party testing in areas such as government-grade encryption, vulnerability scanning and penetration testing, and coding and documentation standards. With its official FedRAMP authorization, LabArchives for Government is now listed on the FedRAMP marketplace, a searchable database of pre-vetted, government-approved, cloud-based solutions. This makes it easier than ever for local, state, and national agencies, (such as the DoD, DoE, NASA, USDA, FDA, CDC, etc.) to source LabArchives for Government as a trusted option for facilitating research and managing unclassified data in accordance with directives from federal offices, including the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and the National Archives and Records Administration; such directives mandate the need for secure, electronic data management in government research, as well as at any academic or institutional organization conducting research supported by government grants.
FedRAMP was established in 2011 to streamline the process of assessing, authorizing, and monitoring the use of cloud-based solutions to handle unclassified government information. Before FedRAMP, any cloud service provider who wanted to do work with a U.S. federal agency had to go through that agency’s individual authorization process, which often led to slow, redundant, and inconsistent processes. With the government-wide FedRAMP program, the process is now standardized and centralized, making it possible for agencies to more easily source and adopt solutions that have already been FedRAMP authorized. There are three levels of authorization:
During the multi-year FedRAMP authorization process that was initiated by LabArchives’ SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications in 2019, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the NIH served as LabArchives’ government-agency partner. The agency collaborated closely with the LabArchives team as it worked to ensure researchers would have access to user-friendly, cloud-based, lab-management solutions that at once adhered to the required 300+ security controls from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53 standards, while also enabling the seamless collaboration, research reproducibility, process efficiency, and data accessibility for which LabArchives is known.
Use of LabArchives for Government at the NIH grew from a 1,000-user pilot license at the NCI in 2022, to 4,000-user license in 2023, and, ultimately, to a first-ever, NIH-agency-wide 7,000-user ELN license in 2024. By choosing one centrally-managed, multi-discipline ELN, the NIH aims to:
As detailed in the case study, Protecting and Optimizing R&D at the National Institutes of Health, LabArchives for Government won out against other options due to its:
To learn more about the ways LabArchives for Government can help your team conduct their research seamlessly and efficiently, while also streamlining compliance with standardized government-wide requirements:
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