DoD CIO Outlines Defense Department Technology Priorities

At the Department of Defense, everything is connected to, driven by, and informed by networks. Therefore, protection of this infrastructure is crucial. The challenge for the DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) is, of course, managing networks with such tremendous magnitude. Wherever they may be in the world, servicemembers expect consistency in IT. DoD CIO needs to safely and securely supply to this demand. Given DoD's tremendous geographic coverage reach, service to the many devices on these networks is neither guaranteed, nor secure. DoD is benchmarking big corporations like Google that also have enormous data management requirements. Even benchmarking is tough because there are just a handful of organizations that have experience dealing at this scope.