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COVID-19 Crisis Demonstrates Coast Guard’s Need For Modernized IT, Schultz Says

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 13th, 2020

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COVID-19 Crisis Demonstrates Coast Guard’s Need For Modernized IT, Schultz Says

Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz. Photo: Coast Guard

Teleworking by thousands of Coast Guard employees amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is demonstrating the service’s need for a modernized information technology (IT) infrastructure, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz said on Monday. Changes to how the Coast Guard’s workforce does their job during the crisis has meant spending funds to make the necessary accommodations “but this is really exacerbating or showing just how critical this C5I, computers, communications, all the modernization stuff, how important it is for an organization…

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