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CBP IT Office Plans to Transition Operations to Cloud by 2024

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, August 20th, 2019

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CBP IT Office Plans to Transition Operations to Cloud by 2024

A key initiative of Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Information Technology is to migrate its infrastructure and applications to a cloud computing environment by 2024, part of a modernization effort to prepare the agency for new ways of doing business, CBP says in a recent notice. Earlier this month, CBP issued a Request for Information (RFI) related to a forthcoming competition to acquire “the full range of life cycle services” for its Traveler Processing and Vetting Software (TPVS) applications…

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