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decision-making. Tat platform is an example of where the Army has done a great job aggregating and analyzing data, Garciga said.
“Tose two things are going to be critical linchpins for zero trust,” he said. “We could not only see ourselves, but we can have some of that core capability to do the analytical work we need to do in the event that there was a compromise or in the event that we had an insider problem that we had to triage. Tose are critical.”
Another critical piece of the zero trust puzzle is identity, creden- tial and access management (ICAM), Garciga said. Te Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems established ICAM in January 2023 to create a global, scalable and robust capability with a single set of authoritative identity data to give access to Army information technology resources at the point of need. ICAM “really helps us get at step one business system audit, believe it or not,” and lays the foundation for the work the Army needs to do to make data available across all the mission areas and functional areas that have unique sharing constraints, he explained.
SCALE UP Te OCIO needs to rethink the way it integrates with the Army acquisition community and become more of an enabler for that community, Garciga said. “I think that’s going to be the next step—how do we ingrain that in everyone and thicken that rela- tionship? And the other piece is really reshaping the way we do non-acquisition program delivery. I think that’s huge. I think that continues to be one of the biggest challenges in the department, both fiscally and from a cybersecurity perspective,” he explained.
Te cybersecurity and software acquisition pathways can have policy debt as well as tech debt. It’s important to determine which policies are value added and need to be implemented, and which are extraneous and a barrier to delivering capability. “People don’t like talking about it [policy], but it matters, right? If you’re a PM [program manager], it matters a lot,” Garciga said. “It costs money, it costs time and sometimes it slows you down.” He wants to figure out what guidance will best support the DevSecOps work that the program managers are doing.
Te OCIO must examine how to support the Army’s four pilot continuous integration and continuous delivery selected acqui- sition programs from a cybersecurity and portfolio perspective, he added. Currently, there isn’t much official guidance on the subject, and it keeps Garciga up at night because if “you get it wrong, you just deliver software faster with more risk, as opposed to delivering software fast—that’s secure,” he said.
“Te key there is getting some of that guidance and making sure that we’re having that conversation with [the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology] to shape what that looks like,” Garciga said. “Te other piece of that is testing. … How we integrate the test community into that is extremely huge.”
Te OCIO also needs to determine how to support commands and what they need for their missions on a large scale, Garciga said. “We’re not a bodega—we’re Walmart plus Amazon. … It’s hard to run your own Amazon and Walmart at the same time.”
Providing guidance that supports the logistics personnel who are trying to get parts in the motor pool and the intelligence person- nel who are trying to get sensitive data to warfighters is extremely complex. “Tose are like different planets,” he said. “How do you make sure that you can shape some guidance out there that supports both what folks are doing on the acquisition side and supports what folks are doing on the mission side?” Tere’s a balance that needs to be found with that, and Garciga hopes to help the OCIO find that balance as much as he can.
CONCLUSION Te conversation in the cyber space must shift to integration, and not just making data available according to set standards, Garciga explained.
When he looks across the warfighting mission and the intelli- gence space, he sees the potential for growth in data integration and interoperability. “In an environment where we definitely have never fought alone—and we’re not going to, we fight with our joint partners—it continues to be more and more critical that we get at some of our interoperability and integration challenges across the board,” Garciga said.
Getting users the data they need at the right time and in the right place is paramount.
For more information about the OCIO, go to
https://www.army.mil/cio.
JACQUELINE M. HAMES is the senior editor at Army AL&T magazine. She holds a B.A. in creative writing from Christopher Newport University. She has more than 15 years of experience writing and editing news and feature articles for publication.
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