Army plans massive e-mail consolidation

InformationWeek: The Army plans to migrate almost 250,000 users currently using numerous, separate e-mail systems onto a single enterprise messaging and collaboration managed service over the next two years, according to new procurement documents released this week.

A draft request for proposals pegs the possible price of the initial five-year contract for migration and subsequent management as topping out at $243 million. According to a draft migration plan, the Army will begin moving users to the new system beginning in November, and hopes to complete the consolidation effort by April 2012, when it wraps up the migration at Fort Myer, Va...    Read Article

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