RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION


flexibility, mobility and hopefully faster delivery of change and adaptation.


For more information, contact Lt. Col. Philip Smith at philip.j.smith2.mil@ army.mil.


LT. COL. PHILIP J. SMITH is the Network


Cross-Functional


Team’s


information system development officer. He holds an M.S. in telecommunications and network engineering


from Syracuse


University and a B.S. in communications with an emphasis on computer science from Truman State University. He has served as


officer


the division automation management for 10th Mountain Division, as


well as chief network engineer at the Defense Intelligence Agency and Joint Staff Directorate for Intelligence.


TRAINING AT A DISTANCE


The constraints of COVID-19 on the 2020 Tactical Cloud Pilot forced an adaptation that proved cloud software training could be done remotely. (Photo by Justin Eimers, U.S. Army)


the agile cloud environments in which we are placing it. Te way we handle, manip- ulate, translate, store and visualize data in its various forms is still largely tied to specific warfighting functions, limiting the ability to inform decisions more broadly.


While the current pilots will deliver new value to the Army in the form of real-time data access, reduced technical overhead and informing operational uses of cloud resources, the Army’s software was never designed to run in the cloud in optimized ways. Terefore, while the Army will see isolated value in using the cloud, soft- ware and system modernization remains fiscally unachievable at the scale the Army requires. Te Army cannot change opera- tional software across the force overnight, causing a legacy compatibility requirement as it adapts to future capabilities.


All these considerations lead to follow-on topics of the technical knowledge and stra- tegic investment in software redesigning and replatforming to take full advantage of cloud computing. Tese new means of implementing IT services may cause us to reevaluate the ways in which we employ them. Concepts of operation for how identity services are implemented and compartmented are at the root of many if not all other IT services in a secure envi- ronment, and must be addressed and resolved. While each concept brings its own advantages, the revolutionary contri- bution to the fight can only be delivered in its integration with the others.


In the next article, the authors will discuss “as a service” models and talk about how the software and therefore the develop- ment process must change, enabling greater


PAUL PUCKETT III is the director of the U.S. Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency. He has served as the federal chief technology officer at an industry cloud native service provider and numerous civil servant roles at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, including cloud integration lead. He holds an M.S. in systems engineering from George Washington University and a B.S. in computer management information systems from Liberty University.


COL. EVERT R. HAWK II is the line of effort 2/3/4 team lead at the Network Cross-Functional Team. He holds a Master of Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College, an MBA in finance from Saint Joseph’s University and a B.S. in business administration and finance from Penn State University. He is a certi- fied Project Management Professional and PMI–Agile Certified Practitioner from the Project Management Institute and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.


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