The Department of Defense Chief Information Officer (CIO) released a new outline of its IT modernization priorities in a report it released this week, “Way Forward to Tomorrow’s Strategic Landscape.” DOD said the report is the first edition and is a “living document” whose goals include better coordination with industry and stronger oversight of the $36B DOD spends on IT each year. The eight strategic areas of focus for the DOD IT environment in the report are:
- Executing capability initiatives toward the Joint Information Environment vision
- Improving partnerships with mission partners and industry
- Ensuring successful mission execution in the face of a persistent cyber threat
- Providing a cloud computing environment
- Optimizing DoD’s data center infrastructure
- Exploiting the power of trusted information sharing
- Providing a resilient communications and network infrastructure
- Improving transparency of DoD IT investments
Way Forward to Tomorrow’s Strategic Landscape: