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DoD IT Officials Urge Senior Leadership To Set Automation, Application Cloud Migration Priorities

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, November 15th, 2017

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Department of Defense information technology (IT) officials are urging senior leadership to prioritize acquisition efforts needed to speed up the integration of network automation capabilities and the migration of critical applications to the cloud.Panelists at a Defense Systems summit on Nov. 14 called on DoD and its industry partners to re-focus the cloud computing conversation on data protection and increase engagement on machine learning solutions to cut down the burden on department analysts.“We’re finding some of our existing tools don’t work so…

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