Army CIO Crawford plots course to Enterprise-IT-as-a-Service, cloud expansion

FedScoop: The Army’s recent initiatives to modernize its networks over the next decade are not moving quickly enough, and it’s time to explore a better option, CIO Bruce Crawford said Tuesday.

The Army will take a page out of the books of the Navy and Air Force in adopting an Enterprise IT-as-a-service model, coupled with a renewed push to the cloud, Crawford, a three-star general, announced at an AUSA breakfast. “We needed a hard right turn, we needed to do something fundamentally different.”

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