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Cyber

Difficulty In Procuring Cloud Comes Down To Teaching Acquisition Officers, Official Says

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, July 9th, 2014

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Difficulty In Procuring Cloud Comes Down To Teaching Acquisition Officers, Official Says

Cloud computing services can be purchased from most providers at any time online with a credit card, yet federal agencies have struggled to figure out the best method for procuring the cloud in the government. “The procurement office, if they’re not savvy on what cloud is, it could go in a lot of directions,” said Barry West, chief information officer for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit Wednesday in Washington. The challenges come down…

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