Simulcast: Defense IT Transformation - Where Mobility Fits In

The Department of Defense (DoD) concept for a Joint Information Environment (JIE) is designed to provide effective warfighter and operations support through network consolidation and standardization, and by addressing the information needs of highly mobile and dispersed forces. The end game is to provide military personnel with improved capabilities for data access, sharing, and security, while enabling significantly simpler network management and situational awareness of connected users and devices.

DoD leaders have noted that mobility is a critical, integrated component for their vision of a secure, aware, agile, and connected defense workforce that will be able to reliably access information and applications as they are needed. Anticipated benefits for soldiers, sailors, airmen and their commanders is more responsive systems, more user-familiar interfaces, and operational efficiencies.

As this concept evolves, how will the JIE improve, or complicate, the programs and collaborative technologies in use today? How will DoD mobile operations and communications be impacted? To address these questions, the Government Business Council (GBC) will release its findings from a new study conducted to understand how members of the defense program management, technology, and security communities view mobility and its linkage to the JIE as we begin Government Fiscal Year 2015.

In this viewcast our panelists will:

• Learn about the cultural and technical barriers involved in migrating from service/component models to enterprise-wide operations and how this approach will be managed throughout the broader DoD community

• Understand primary concerns for DoD mobility initiatives in use today

• Consider the current drivers and challenges for effective defense enterprise mobility

• Hear how expanded mobile operations will impact warfighting operations