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Air Force begins phase 2 of enterprise IT service delivery

The Air Force released a new solicitation and plans to issue another one as part of its overall strategy to centralize many IT modernization efforts.

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Air Force $5.7B EITaaS contract freed from protests

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Air Force’s corrective action fails to satisfy unsuccessful bidders for EITaaS contract

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Army attempt to modernize IT for multi-domain ops is establishing milestones, filling in top leaders

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(Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury/U.S. Air Force via AP)

In this Aug. 5, 2019 photo released by the U.S. Air Force, an F-35 fighter jet pilot and crew prepare for a mission at Al-Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates. The Biden administration has put a temporary hold on several major foreign arms sales initiated by former President Donald Trump. Officials say that among the deals being paused is a massive $23 billion transfer of stealth F-35 fighters to the United Arab Emirates. (Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Part 2: Air Force pursues lines of effort for IT risk reduction at bases

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FILE - In this April 24, 2019, file photo released by the U.S. Air Force, an F-35A Lightning II fighter jet prepares to taxi and take off from Al-Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, on April 24, 2019. The United States called Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates

Part 1: Air Force determining if managed services can help consolidate data across bases

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Two Air Force bases given go-ahead to expand network-as-a-service

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Bill Marion, Secretary of the Air Force deputy chief information officer, listens to a Tyndall Airman Dec. 18, 2018, about the work the 325th Communication Squadron’s Airmen did to safeguard important equipment instrumental to the Radio Frequency transmissions infrastructure on Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., in timeframes before and immediately after Hurricane Michael made landfall. Hurricane Michael was a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall Oct. 10, 2018, that caused near catastrophic damage to the Panama City area. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Solomon Cook)

Air Force finally in alignment across most major IT foundational elements

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Air Force testing next generation help desk with 70K users as part of EITaaS

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(From left to right) Lauren Knausenberger, director of Cyberspace Innovation, and 1st Lt. Jessica Farris, program manager and engineer, Lifecycle Management Center, Agile Combat Systems Directorate, participate in a women in technology panel during the Air Force Conference, also known as AFCON, at the Pentagon, July 19. AFCON is a one-day immersion into Air Force technology, culture and operations designed for long-form storytellers who typically do not cover the military.

Cloud, network managed services giving Air Force glimpse of network future

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Margaret Weichert, acting director at the Office of Personnel Management and deputy director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget., holds a challenge coin.

Thousands of federal employees to be asked about benefits this coming fall

Federal Newscast

Uniformed and civilian cyber and military intelligence specialists monitor Army networks in the Cyber Mission Unit’s Cyber Operations Center at Fort Gordon, Ga. (Photo by Michael L. Lewis)

Army, DHA take steps to stop managing day-to-day IT operations

The Air Force’s Cloud One program faces a protest by Leidos, while the Army names a new project manager for data and the CIO Council upgrades its website…

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In this Tuesday, June 18, 2019 photo a sign for the entrance to the National Archives is seen in College Park, Md. A Virginia National Guard sergeant is accused of stealing World War II-era dog tags from the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland, at least the second theft case involving the research facility. Robert Rumsby, of Fredericksburg, Va., told investigators he took dog tags that belonged to four U.S. airmen killed in plane crashes in 1944, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court last month. (AP Photo/Michael Kunzelman)

Agencies told to phase out paper records by December 2022

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Office of Management and Budget has given agencies a timeline to switch from paper records, to electronic records.

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Army plans to follow Navy, Air Force in outsourcing much of its IT infrastructure

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The Army, over the next two years, plans to fundamentally reshape the way it delivers IT on its bases with an “as-a-service” delivery model.