THE DIGITAL ARMY OF THE FUTURE


IN OUR SIGHTS


“The Army must be manned, trained, equipped and modernized to be ready to fight today, but also to meet the demands of an uncertain and unpredictable future,” said Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth. (Image by U.S. Army)


Our goal is to optimize the Army’s resources and enable confident invest- ment decisions that are data driven and objective while at the same time ensuring direct alignment of these investments to Army priorities. With improved and more efficient institutional processes for acqui- sition, budget and portfolio management, the Army can ensure better alignment of digital resources to current and future digital requirements.


OBJECTIVE 3: A tech savvy, oper- ationally effective digital workforce partnered with a robust network of allies, industry and academia.


People drive success. Our people and our relationships with allied partners are vital to achieving our goal to dominate in multidomain operations. In today’s digital transformation revolution, simply having the newest technology is not sufficient— we need the right digital skills to optimize and fully apply the technology through


innovation. Similarly, simply having strong partner relationships is not enough—the Army needs proper channels, networks and systems in place to effectively collab- orate and communicate. Te Army faces internal challenges with ensuring its work- force can understand, develop, apply and enable digital priorities as well as exter- nal opportunities to improve collaboration with allies, academia and industry. Our goal is to embrace the recognition that people drive Army’s success on and off the battlefield. Robust recruiting, training programs, digital career models and part- nerships with academia and industry will build a digital ready, adaptive and inno- vative workforce. In addition, sustained communications and interoperability with allied nations will ensure we optimize our ability to collaborate in all domains.


Te Office of the CIO has established 13 priority lines of effort to support the three objectives listed above. Tese priorities will drive resourcing decisions in future in


austere fiscal conditions, while at the same time achieving unity of effort across the Army. Te Office of the CIO is working closely with the DOD CIO, joint staff, the Defense Information Systems Agency and other military department CIOs to better integrate and leverage lessons learned from each agency, while also staying fully aligned with the DOD CIO’s digital modernization strategy. Priority initiatives in the strategy will be monitored through the oversight council to ensure they meet mission outcomes. At the same time, the Office of the CIO is reviewing and updat- ing current policies to ensure they are not an impediment to innovation and fully support digital transformation.


SAY HELLO TO THE ARMY OF THE FUTURE Te Office of the CIO is setting the stage for digital transformation and collabora- tion across the Army enterprise and around the world. Te Hon. Christine Wormuth, secretary of the Army, said, “Te Army


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