Sherman said that there is no timeframe for when the department will release a request for information for JWCC 2.0 or when the effort will roll out next year, but added that DoD was “firmly committed to multi-cloud, multi-vendor, and this is what we’re going to be doing going forward.”
By Jaspreet GillModernizing our supply chain is a national security imperative
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
“I think the most important thing that I’m communicating to industry is that we need a flexible network in the future,” Mark Kitz, leader of PEO C3T, told Breaking Defense. “And we need to be able to iterate our programs so we can have that flexible network in the future.”
By Jaspreet Gill
In his new role, Garciga will be responsible for the service’s vast information technology portfolio, including its digital transformation strategy and cloud efforts like the Enterprise Application Migration and Modernization contract worth up to $1 billion.
By Jaspreet Gill
“While so much of what we accomplished is visible now, the biggest accomplishments will not be seen for a few more years,” Army Chief Information Officer Raj Iyer said.
By Jaspreet Gill
The 2022 version of the Army’s cloud plan includes a new strategic objective that wasn’t mentioned in its previous iteration: implementing a zero trust architecture.
By Jaspreet Gill
“It’s very, very tempting to continue to spend money on technologies that are 10 years old because we’ve gotten comfortable with them,” Army CIO Raj Iyer said. “That’s not what’s going to help us fight and win…for the Army of 2030.”
By Jaspreet Gill
New framework designed “so we spend a vast majority of our time actually focusing on the security […] and not spending, where we traditionally were, about 80% of our time just getting the paperwork ready so we could get an approval to operate.”
By Jaspreet Gill
AI can make logistics data as valuable as intelligence or operational data for mission success
Valuable intelligence insights can be gleaned from logistics or flight-test data when artificial intelligence or machine learning is applied.
An Air Force officer’s semi-viral screed implored the military to fix basic computer functions before doing anything else. He told Breaking Defense the CIOs’ response was “genuine progress.”
By Lee Ferran
Prior to the Army Digital Transformation Strategy, “What we lacked in the Army was an integrator… a unity of effort to modernize. That’s what the DTS is about,” CIO Raj Iyer said.
By Brad D. Williams
