The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans to migrate its entire application portfolio to the cloud by Jan. 20, 2028, a move that would make the agency one of the largest in the federal government to complete a full cloud transition, according to a senior official.
“We’re going to be one of the first agencies at this scale to move all 276 apps in the cloud,” said Sanjeev “Sonny” Bhagowalia, CBP chief information officer and assistant commissioner, on June 9 at IBM Think Gov 2026 in Washington, D.C.
The migration effort is already well underway. The agency has already migrated about 80% of its application tier and roughly 50% of its database tier, Bhagowalia said.
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