Army upgrades policy, technology to secure GenAI
The Army banned early government Large Language Models because they lacked features of the new Army Enterprise LLM Workspace, Army CIO Leonel Garciga told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
Pentagon AI office, Army award Ask Sage $10M for GenAI expansion
The contract expands the Army’s “Enterprise Large Language Model Workspace” — just introduced in May — to users at OSD, the Joint Staff, and combatant commands worldwide.
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Army expands access to encrypted Wickr platform in aim to curb insecure comms, bolster integration
The greater use of the Army-approved tech comes on the heels of the Signal-gate encrypted messaging controversy.
Don’t blow the budget on ChatGPT: Army CIO sounds alarm on big bills for GenAI
“Let’s not have a bazillion flowers blooming in this space,” said Leonel Garciga. “That gets expensive very fast, and it gets really hard to protect our data.”
One year in, Pentagon looks ahead to Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability ‘2.0’
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.”
Army looks at revamping acquisition, asks for industry help as it builds network of the future
"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."
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After months-long vacancy, Army taps Garciga as new chief information officer
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.
With Army’s top IT official exiting, service has two key modernization roles to fill
"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.
After months of waiting, Army finally unveils its updated cloud, data plans
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.
Army CIO: FY23 is ‘year of inflection’ for digital transformation
"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."
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Army’s cyber risk framework aims to ‘crush’ daunting enemy: Bureaucracy
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."
Military CIOs say they take ‘fix our computers’ rant ‘to heart’
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."
Army CIO: ‘Going Digital Is A Mindset; It’s A Culture Change’
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.