Katie Arrington: Connecting tech reform to the warfighter mission

When Katie Arrington was named to her role performing the duties of the CIO for the Department of Defense, which the Trump administration is now calling the Department of War, she took that charge seriously. As such, she’s not just keeping a seat warm until the Senate approves a new CIO. Instead, Arrington, who knows what it takes to get things done in the Pentagon, has been hellbent on driving IT reform to deliver better software and digital services that warfighters depend on. In an energetic new episode of CTRL + ALT + DEFENSE, recorded before the government shutdown, Arrington shares why she returned to the Pentagon during the second Trump administration, what’s in store for the department’s IT and much more.

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