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DHS Touts Progress In Transition Of IT Applications To The Cloud

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, February 21st, 2019

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DHS Touts Progress In Transition Of IT Applications To The Cloud

At the end of 2018, the Department of Homeland Security was in the process of transitioning or had already transitioned more than a quarter of its information technology application systems to the cloud and it is planning to expand its cloud presence this year and next. “The take away is a broad-based, Component-led, DHS-wide adoption and move to the Cloud that is multi-year, robust, and well underway,” DHS says in a Request for Information posted on the government’s business opportunities…

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