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November 20, 2012

Lockheed Martin Expands Range Of Cloud Computing Services for UK Government
Rockville MD (SPX) Nov 20, 2012
Lockheed Martin UK has expanded its offering of cloud computing services available to the UK government after recently being selected to provide G-Cloud 2 IT support. This new contract succeeds the previous G-Cloud 1 program and will run for 12 months, allowing Lockheed Martin UK to provide an even wider range of services that includes infrastructure, software and specialist cloud capabilities. Under the G-Cloud 2 framework agreement, better known as CloudStore, Lockheed Martin will now offe ... read more

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