CIO Outlines Cloud Environment Goals at Department of Defense

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Kenneth Corbin.

 The top technology officer at the Department of Defense (DoD) wants to work more closely with cloud service providers, saying yesterday that he expects to enhance collaboration with the private sector as the Pentagon, like the rest of the federal government, looks to trim IT costs and improve efficiencies.  Speaking at a cloud event geared for private-sector firms, Terry Halvorsen, acting CIO at DoD, outlined his vision "to form an interactive partnership between all of the government players involved within DoD and industry to get it right."

"We are going to continue to move more into the commercial space," Halvorsen says. "One of the questions that we’re wrestling with today inside the DoD technology is what businesses should we be in, and how much of any business should we be in."…


Perhaps more to the point, he wonders what businesses the Pentagon should get out of, and "where should we be using more of the commercial capabilities?"…

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