The U.S. Air Force is outsourcing all traditional IT in order to build cybersecurity mission teams
The U.S. Air Force is in the midst of a major technological shift where it is outsourcing virtually all day-to-day IT operations and retooling its workforce for cybersecurity. It’s a years-long process that now includes the biggest Microsoft Office 365 enterprise in the world, a $293 million Oracle cloud system and a $1 billion spend on a mass cloud migration over the next five years. Silicon Valley’s top companies are now running Air Force’s email servers so airman can be placed in Mission Defense Teams, sets of operators who do day-to-day, front line cybersecurity work at bases around the world. “We want our airmen transitioning from running email and boxes to focusing on cyber defense,”said William Marion, the Air Force’s deputy chief of information dominance and deputy chief information officer. “Every time we move to the cloud, the intent is to free up cyber operators for the Mission Defense Teams.” The role switch is described within […]
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