Young Bang, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, said the effectiveness of high- and low-tech fighting was "pushing into our guiding principles."
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.
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
"The Army in the past has always executed traditional IT in a very decentralized way — we let every command do their own thing," Army CIO Raj Iyer said. "Now, if you look at the requirements for multi-domain operations, that model doesn't work anymore."