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Air Force Focusing On Enterprise IT As A Service, Cyber-Integrated ISR Capabilities

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, February 15th, 2018

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Air Force Focusing On Enterprise IT As A Service, Cyber-Integrated ISR Capabilities

Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for ISR Lt. Gen. VeraLinn "Dash" Jamieson.

Air Force officials are looking to cyber-integrated ISR capabilities and embracing enterprise IT as a service (EaaS) in an effort to better leverage data to protect networks and address growing adversarial threats. Future ISR efforts will take greater advantage of automation and network support teams will be called onto provide mission defense as the service looks to improve dominance of information operations, according to Air Force C4ISR and information leaders speaking at a Thursday AFCEA event.“The way our system today…

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