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.
"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.
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The intent is to have one single contract vehicle to support moving Army systems to the cloud, which currently doesn’t exist, that will be quick and cheap, the service's chief information officer said.
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.
The G-6 is working closely with Raj Iyer, the Army's chief information officer, on "characterizing" some of the legacy data centers the service wants to eventually shut down that are no longer needed.
"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 CIO Raj Iyer said the service is moving away from “traditional ways” of pulling data as it looks to build "a Command Post Computing Environment of the future."
The service's cloud and data efforts will be "anchored" to the Multi-Domain Task Forces as the Army looks to ensure data is accessible and resilient in combat.
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.
"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."
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"Joint always seems fun until we get into decisions about who governs this," joked Army CIO Raj Iyer.