Pentagon launches massive, Microsoft-based teleworking service for 4 million employees

By Justin Doubleday / April 7, 2020 at 5:52 PM
The Defense Department wants to shift more than 4 million employees to a new teleworking service based on Microsoft Teams, as federal employees increasingly work from home amid the coronavirus pandemic. The new "Commercial Virtual Work Environment" launched late last month provides DOD employees with chat, video, voice conferencing and file sharing via Microsoft Teams on both personal and government devices, according to a fact sheet published online by the Air Force yesterday. The "CVR Environment" includes the full suite...

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