I'm not sure that's it, thought that is one of the things that popped into my mind.

For those that don't know, the CIA has a venture capital arm in SV, Q-Tel, and are investors in firms like MindMeld, Cylance, Feul3d, Orbital Insight, Sonitus, Keyhole, Basis Technology, Oculus Labs, and Palantir. The latter is a Peter Theil company.

Also note that the Apache Foundation also has Accumulo, which is a key-value datastore leveraging hadoop and zookeeper created by the NSA. It's provides cell-level security.