Lockheed Martin and Microsoft have successfully completed migration of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Microsoft Office 365. Deployment of the cloud-based collaboration and communication service will improve employee access to communications and mobility tools.
“Our partnership with Lockheed Martin in bringing Microsoft Office 365 to the EPA generated a level of excitement amongst our employees that has been unmatched,” Malcolm Jackson, assistant administrator for the EPA’s Office of Environmental Information and chief information officer explained. “Lockheed Martin exceeded my expectations in delivering this service to the EPA.”
Under its four-year contract with the EPA, Lockheed Martin transitioned more than 22,000 EPA email users to Office 365 for Government. Microsoft stores U.S. government data in a segregated community cloud, which includes email, calendars, scheduling and collaboration tools for internal and external use. Lockheed Martin will continue to provide engineering and ongoing integration services to the agency.
“The EPA’s vision of a more cost-effective, modernized collaboration environment has arrived, thanks in large part to the incredible work of our partners at Lockheed Martin,” said Greg Myers, vice president of Microsoft Federal. “By moving to the cloud with Office 365 for Government, EPA personnel can be more productive from any location, while maintaining the highest levels of reliability, accessibility, and security.”
The Office 365 deployment, which builds upon Lockheed Martin’s 35 years of information technology service to the EPA, illustrates the value proposition cloud solutions can bring to the government sector.
“Our expertise in cloud migration processes and our alliances with technology partners provide a strong foundation for flexible cloud-based solutions for federal customers,” said Stephanie C. Hill, president of the civil product line at Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS).
CLO Inside Track: Federal agencies already had been under a “Cloud First” directive because it provides more than a mere technology upgrade – strategic deployment of cloud services can enable users to do more with less. With federal agencies struggling with the added burden of across-the-board budget costs due to sequestration, the heat is on to make every dollar count. Lockheed’s on-schedule migration provides a solid example of how government contractors can provide more value to their customers and how government agencies can gain quicker and easier access to robust collaboration and communication tools.
(For additional information contact: Lockheed Martin, 301-897-6230, www.lockheedmartin.com; Microsoft, 503-443-7070, www.microsoft.com; http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lockheed-martin-successfully-migrates-epa-to-the-microsoft-cloud-195855041.html.)
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