Air Force moves to consolidated e-mail system

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Air Force moves to consolidated e-mail system
By Erik Holmes - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Nov 28, 2009 15:42:18 EST

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Substitute your first and last names and you’ll soon have the only e-mail address you’ll ever need — one that will follow you wherever you’re assigned, for as long as you serve. And you’ll be able to read and send messages from anywhere.

The consolidated e-mail system is part of a larger project started three years ago by the Air Force Network Integration Center at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., to create a centralized computer network for the service, according to Karen Petitt, a spokeswoman for AFNIC. Right now, major commands and some subordinate units run their own networks.

One network will let the Air Force cut down on manpower and equipment as well as better protect its computers from cyber attacks. Petitt wrote in an e-mail. The network’s commander will be the commander of 24th Air Force, Maj. Gen. Richard E. Webber.

The amount of money that will be saved by centralization can’t be figured because of variables from base to base, Petitt wrote.

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