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The Pentagon says its new Silicon Valley-based technology outreach office is seeing some early successes in rapid acquisition. It handled its first dozen procurements in an average time of 60 days. But most of the money it spent went to established companies, not garage-style startups.
The project, known as the Army Private Cloud Enterprise, represents the first time the Army has contracted with a private company to run a large-scale data center inside the gates of a military installation.
Nora Bensahel, distinguished scholar in residence at American University, and retired Lt. Gen. David Barno, a distinguished practitioner there, are co-authors of The Future of the Army, published by the Atlantic Council. They walked Federal Drive with Tom Temin through some of the budget challenges the Army currently faces.
National Guard units were activated in several East Coast states over the weekend to help with the relief effort in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew.
Eric Fanning, the secretary of the Army, said last week that he's ordered a new initiative designed to reduce time-consuming requirements directed by Department of the Army headquarters, particularly with regard to training.
The Army closed out the fiscal year that ended a little over a week ago having met its recruiting goals for the first time in five years.
The Army is taking a fresh look at how much of the development and sustainment of computer code ought to be left to contractors and whether it’s time to bring some of that work in-house.
The JRSS effort will eventually consolidate about 125 separate points of Army cyber defense into 25 shared, regional centers to protect both classified and unclassified networks.
Association of the U.S. Army hosts its annual conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
Patrick Murphy, the Undersecretary of the Army, previously served as a congressman from Pennsylvania, and is an Army veteran. At the Association of the U.S. Army's conference, he tells Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about a topic he's devoted a significant amount of attention to since taking office this past January — the Army's Soldier for Life initiative.
Lt. Gen. Stephen Lanza is the commander of the Army's I Corps, based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, but heavily engaged throughout the Pacific. He joined Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin at the Association of the U.S. Army conference with an update on some of I Corps' activities over the past year.
The Army's Rapid Capabilities Office is barely a month old, but Army leaders already have a strong idea of what they want the new organization to pursue. Early priorities are electronic warfare, cyber, and position, navigation and timing. Maj. Gen. Walter Piatt, the office's deputy director for operations, joined Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin at this week's Association of the U.S. Army conference here in Washington with a preview of some of the work ahead.
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