THE DIGITAL ARMY OF THE FUTURE


GET TO KNOW THE OFFICE OF THE CIO To achieve digital transformation at scale across the Army, required the service to establish a new organization with a focus on developing and fielding forward-lean- ing technologies across the enterprise, to establish new policies consistent with digital technologies, and to establish the framework for the digital workforce of the future. All of this is to be accomplished in a fiscally constrained future. On Aug. 31, 2020, the Army separated the Office of the CIO from the Army deputy chief of staff, G-6 (DCS G-6), to serve as a new princi- pal official in the secretariat.


Te CIO serves as the principal adviser to the secretary of the Army, setting the Army’s strategic direction, policy and oversight for information technology, cloud, cybersecurity and data. Te DCS G-6 is the senior military adviser to the chief of staff of the Army and the CIO on policy planning and implementation, with specific responsibilities to set the unified network for multidomain operations.


EARLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Te Office of the CIO established a few foundational changes very early on to kick-start digital transformation in the Army. Te first was to establish a new governance structure to enable synchro- nization, prioritization and integration of the various digital efforts underway. Te Army Digital Oversight Council, chaired by the CIO, is the first such across DOD to integrate efforts across mission areas and to serve as the integrator for the planning, programming, budgeting and execution process to ensure the Army’s $15 billion annual information technology and cyber budget align with Army priorities.


In January 2021, the Office of the CIO elevated its Enterprise Cloud Management


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DEPLOYMENT READY


Dr. Raj Iyer, chief information officer for the U.S. Army, greets Maj. Gen. Xavier Brunson, the America's First Corps commanding general, for a briefing July 28 during Forager 21 at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. The exercise demonstrates the U.S. Army Pacific's strategic-level readiness to deploy a combat-ready force. (Photo by Pfc. Richard Mohr, 28th Public Affairs Detachment)


Office to the status of field operating agency and renamed it the Enterprise Cloud Management Agency, granting the Office of the CIO greater autonomy and flexibility. Tis agency is committed to the adoption of new cloud and digital technologies across the enterprise. Since its inception, the agency has established the Army’s first accredited development, security and operations platform called CREATE (the Coding Repository and Transformation Environment) in support of the Army Software Factory, estab- lished both unclassified and classified cloud environments in commercial cloud service providers called cArmy, and estab- lished a centralized contract for discounted procurement of cloud services. Te agency


also supported the migration of several mission-critical applications to the cArmy cloud resulting in early cost savings for the Army.


Te Office of the CIO also provided over- sight to the Army’s implementation of the cloud-based Army 365 collaboration platform across 1 million users world- wide—considered the largest Microsoft 365 implementation ever, following only Walmart.


Tese recent accomplishments are a great source of pride, but ultimate success will come from the Army’s ability to achieve a digital Army of 2028. In that light, the Office of the CIO developed an integrated,


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