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Cyber

DoD IT Officials Urge Senior Leadership To Set Automation, Application Cloud Migration Priorities

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, November 14th, 2017

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DoD IT Officials Urge Senior Leadership To Set Automation, Application Cloud Migration Priorities

Panel on cloud migration at the Defense Systems Summit. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

Department of Defense information technology (IT) officials are urging senior leadership to prioritize acquisition efforts needed to speed up the integration of network automation capabilities and the migration of critical applications to the cloud. Panelists at Tuesday’s Defense Systems summit called on DoD and its industry partners to re-focus the cloud computing conversation on data protection and increase engagement on machine learning solutions to cut down the burden on department analysts.“We’re finding some of our existing tools don’t work so…

Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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