Army Migrates to Enterprise Email T


he Army’s network email is in the midst of migrating to En- terprise Email, an improved system enabling users to have


military email access worldwide.


The new system also allows users to retain their email accounts if transferred to a different agency or organization within DOD. If users switched organizations under the previous system, their email addresses would change to reflect that.


“Right now the global address list is small for individual users, and for the Army there is no visibility on other services’ addresses. Upon migration to Enterprise, 3.9 million addresses will appear in the [global address book] immediately,” said Mike Krieger, Army Deputy Chief Infor- mation Officer (CIO)/G-6.


“This will also allow us to share calendars with outside entities, and this migration will allow us to have unlimited storage.”


The new email is provided by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The migration to DISA is part of a larger DOD effort to consolidate information technology services, improve capabilities, and reduce overall costs.


A PHASED APPROACH The migration covers 1.4 million unclas- sified network users and 200,000 secret network users.


The first phase in April migrated more than 14,000 Army users, including those at the Army CIO/G-6; U.S. Army Network


Enterprise Technology Command/9th Signal Command (Army); 7th Signal Command; U.S. Army Research, Devel- opment, and Engineering Command; 93rd Signal Brigade; Fort Riley, KS; Fort Monmouth, NJ; Rock Island, IL; and Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.


The first major, multi-installation migra- tions began in June; as of July 18, 87,000 users had migrated.


By the end of December, Army user migration will be complete, in addition to migration of DOD personnel assigned to Army-hosted combatant commands.


The Army also is looking to move its SharePoint collaboration systems, which currently operate on servers around the world, to the DISA cloud, Krieger said.


“We think it’s the same business case,” he said. “The software’s paid for, but there are too many people standing up their own SharePoint portals. So what you’re paying for is extra servers and extra people running them.”


COST SAVINGS While an undertaking of this magnitude does not come without challenges, the project’s cost savings make it worth- while, officials said. They believe the migration will generate annual sav- ings exceeding $100 million in years to come, with efficiencies produced as early as FY12.


This year’s cost for the project is $52 mil- lion, with the estimated annual cost per user at $39.


“The bill to the Army will go down every year,” said Krieger.


DISA’S ENTERPRISE EMAIL


A Soldier at her workstation will be able to share calendars with users outside of the email program after migrating to DISA’s Enterprise Email. (U.S. Army photo by CIO/G-6).


“We are hitting our budget targets. We are on budget for [migrating] NIPR [Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router], and we’re on track to do the same for SIPR [Secure Internet Protocol Router],” said Air Force Maj Gen Ron- nie Hawkins, Vice Director of DISA, referring to the military’s non-classified and classified networks.


—From CIO/G-6 and staff reports A S C . A RMY.MI L 35


ACQUISITION


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