The Pentagon is telling all of the military services and agencies that it is time for them to stop running their own e mail servers and software program, and to draw up plans within the subsequent couple of months to move to the DoDwide enterprise email method.
Up till now, the Pentagon has been content to let the services and agencies make their personal choices on when and no matter whether to move to the program, operated in a private cloud by the Defense Details Systems Agency. But no additional.
In a memo to the leaders of DoD elements late final week, DoD chief information and facts officer Teri Takai told officials they have 120 days to draw up plans to migrate their current email infrastructure to enterprise e-mail.
The directive, which also officially designated the email capability as a DoD enterprise service beneath the department's mandated enterprise architecture, is aspect of the Pentagon's broader push to shut down service-centric IT capabilities and turn them into popular departmentwide solutions. The military is progressively evolving toward a standards-primarily based computing idea known as the the Joint Data Environment (JIE). http://enterprise-email.org/why-is-ako-so-hard-to-get-into/
No excuses permitted
And when it comes to e mail, there will be no escape clauses for the military solutions, mentioned Lt. Gen. Mark Bowman, the CIO for the military's Joint Employees and one particular of the three co-chairmen of the JIE executive committee. He stated it is a single of a number of enterprise initiatives the oversight body is tracking closely in every DoD element.
"[Transitioning to JIE] needs holding men and women accountable. The finest way to do that is to start off handing out report cards and start off briefing them to the leaders," he told an audience at AFCEA Northern Virginia's annual Joint Warfighter IT Day in Vienna, Va. "Some individuals are coming to me and saying, 'Hey, I don't like the way our scorecard looks.' OK, do what you need to have to do to turn green then."
The Army, which helped DISA pioneer the enterprise e-mail service, is by far its biggest user and finished migrating most of the service's 1.5 million users last month. The Navy and Marine Corps meanwhile have expressed reluctance to make the switch, with leaders saying they at present get extra capability for much less funds below the existing Navy-Marine Corps Intranet. But Bowman, who served in the Army CIO's office prior to his Joint Employees assignment, stated not even the Army has managed to earn a "green" score on its JIE report card for the enterprise e mail category.
"They never plan on transitioning West Point and they don't program on transitioning the Corps of Engineers," he stated. "The Army was pounding on me yesterday, saying, 'We're green. We've moved everyone we want to.' If I gave them a green for that, everyone else would use that as the very same justification for why they are not going to do any extra than they already have. We are working plans appropriate now for how all these organizations comply in all these distinctive places. Some of them are federally-directed and presidentially-mandated, but these are the items that lead us to the JIE." http://www.disa.mil/News/Conferences-and-Events/DISA-Mission-Partner-Conference-2012/~/media/Files/DISA/News/Conference/2012/DOD_Enterprise_Email.pdf
Two deadlines set
The DoD CIO memo demands military elements to start off migrating to the enterprise e mail no later than the initially quarter of 2015. Lt. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins, DISA's director, told reporters his agency will be prepared to serve the entire military.
"We have the capability to scale to 4.five million customers correct now," he said. "We've got 1.five million right now among the Army, DISA, the Joint Staff, the [Office of the Secretary of Defense] staff and a variety of other users that are out there. What I was told to do was to make out the architecture, and I've given a thumbs- up and mentioned we're ready to go."
As with the broader push toward JIE, the Pentagon believes the single e-mail program will boost security, boost collaboration amongst military elements and cut down all round IT charges. And officials think the cultural shift it calls for is a substantially simpler sell with the existing stress on technologies budgets.
"Resource choices are tough. We all know there's going to be much less cash out there, and we've got to devote what we've got proper," Bowman stated. "In the previous, we have been awash in money. Men and women could go out and do what they thought was right devoid of seeking next door to see if somebody had already done what they had been gonna do, so we wound up with concentric fiber circles in places like Balad, Bagram, and you can hold on going. Here in the U.S., Joint Bases are joint in name only. Why do we have to have two communications closets that price hundreds of thousands of dollars a piece that are only often connected to each and every other? Why do we have to have three commands on the exact same base all running their own method? We don't. We never want to personal it and we don't require to handle it. We need to have to divest that and put that requirement with an individual who has it as a core competency, substantially as enterprise e mail is with DISA. They're fantastic at it. Let's give it to them and watch them do it, make positive it really is as superior as what we've got today. And it had improved be better."
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