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Lockheed Martin Set To Complete Major Air Force Cloud Pilot This Summer

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, June 18th, 2014

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] will complete a cloud pilot for an enterprise Air Force system that serves 800,000 users next month. “It shows a major Air Force system and platform using cloud to lower operational costs, separate data to different security models, and–quite honestly–really helping drive the Air Force into the next phase,” said Angela Heise, Lockheed Martin vice president of Enterprise IT Solutions. As part of its contract with the Air Force’s Global Combat Support System (GCSS), the company migrated the…

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