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August 23, 2022 | International, Land

Army launches new Bring-Your-Own-Device pilot as it aims to leverage commercial capabilities

"Since this is done in a virtualized environment that is hosted up in the cloud through DoD, it is very, very, very secure... We're pretty excited about this and it's taken us a while to get to this point, both from a policy perspective and from a building out of the environment [perspective], but we are right on the cusp of implementation," Lt. Gen. John Morrison said.

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/08/army-launches-new-bring-your-own-device-pilot-as-it-aims-to-leverage-commercial-capabilities/

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