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Leidos to modernize and secure U.S. Air Force cloud operations for faster, safer mission readiness
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will modernize the U.S. Air Force's Cloud One platform to accelerate the secure deployment of cloud capabilities. This program is designed to create a vehicle for modernization that can be deployed across the Department of War to help safeguard mission-critical systems and data and drive broader, faster adoption of cloud capabilities across the Air Force.
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