Air Force to outsource 'low-hanging' IT operations freeing airmen for cyber Mission Defense Teams

FedScoop: The Air Force is transforming the way it manages IT operations, outsourcing virtually all day-to-day IT functions and retooling its workforce for cybersecurity.

In a new report, CyberScoop’s Patrick Howell O’Neill details the 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.

Private sector contractors have been tapped to run Air Force’s email servers so airmen can be placed in more critical Mission Defense Teams — sets of operators who do day-to-day, front-line cybersecurity work at bases around the world.

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