
Katie Arrington named acting Pentagon CIO
Katie Arrington was announced Monday as the Pentagon’s official “Performing the Duties of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer.”
Katie Arrington was announced Monday as the Pentagon’s official “Performing the Duties of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer.”
In conversations this week, sources revealed who is functioning in some of the Pentagon’s key technology-focused roles during the early days of Trump’s second term.
The company has a new chief information digital officer and senior vice president for information technology and data analytics.
Les Call, director of the DOD’s Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office, provided an update on his team’s unfolding pursuits.
Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner said JWCC 2.0 will bring faster commercial cloud capability and “greater diversity.”
The Defense Information Systems Agency is setting up a Joint Operational Edge (JOE) cloud capability in Germany.
The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability is the Defense Department’s top enterprise cloud initiative.
As he departs from his role as Pentagon CIO, John Sherman spoke with DefenseScoop about his career in government and what challenges DOD faces in the future.
“While this type of unauthorized disclosure is different from intentional and illegal disclosure of classified materials, the Department still takes very seriously all kinds of unauthorized disclosures of Classified National Security Information or Controlled Unclassified Information,” John Sherman wrote in a recent memo.
A statement from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sherman has better positioned DOD to take advantage of technological developments and respond to digital threats.