The New New Internet unveiled a number of timely and important news items this week geared toward the government contracting executive.
One of the stories the GovCon technology website unveiled was a contract award by the Veterans Affairs office for $36 million to migrate 600,000 users to Microsoft cloud email solutions.
The contract is for five years and will implement Microsoft Office 365 for government under the VA’s transformation twenty-one total technology (VA T4) program.
“VA is moving to cloud-based email and collaboration as part of a broader effort to leverage emerging technologies to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and, most importantly, improve service delivery to our nation’s veterans,” said Charles De Sanno, VA’s executive director of enterprise systems engineering
To start, 15,000 personnel will be transitioned into the cloud system and the rest of the transitions will be made in increments until all the contract options are fulfilled.
The move is in compliance with the “cloud first” mandate of the Obama administration.
Executive Mosaic is a leader in connecting Capital-area executives through exclusive events and media, with a particular focus on the federal government contracting (GovCon) industry. In addition to weaving a fabric of private like-minded communities, the company’s growing cross-media platform serves as a leading source of news on the people, policies, trends and events shaping the GovCon sector.
The company publishes GovConExec magazine, and daily news blogs covering the GovCon sector: GovConWire, ExecutiveBiz TheNewNewInternet, GovConExecutive, ExecutiveGov and GovConExec.
One of the stories the GovCon technology website unveiled was a contract award by the Veterans Affairs office for $36 million to migrate 600,000 users to Microsoft cloud email solutions.
The contract is for five years and will implement Microsoft Office 365 for government under the VA’s transformation twenty-one total technology (VA T4) program.
“VA is moving to cloud-based email and collaboration as part of a broader effort to leverage emerging technologies to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and, most importantly, improve service delivery to our nation’s veterans,” said Charles De Sanno, VA’s executive director of enterprise systems engineering
To start, 15,000 personnel will be transitioned into the cloud system and the rest of the transitions will be made in increments until all the contract options are fulfilled.
The move is in compliance with the “cloud first” mandate of the Obama administration.
Executive Mosaic is a leader in connecting Capital-area executives through exclusive events and media, with a particular focus on the federal government contracting (GovCon) industry. In addition to weaving a fabric of private like-minded communities, the company’s growing cross-media platform serves as a leading source of news on the people, policies, trends and events shaping the GovCon sector.
The company publishes GovConExec magazine, and daily news blogs covering the GovCon sector: GovConWire, ExecutiveBiz TheNewNewInternet, GovConExecutive, ExecutiveGov and GovConExec.