DON IT West supplies the chance for attendees to listen to instantly from Navy management, permitting them to acquire the mandatory info to determine progressive IT options for present and future IT challenges.
The panel, moderated by Tom Sasala, DON chief information officer, included Rear Adm. Doug Small, NAVWAR commander; John Pope, NAVWAR government director; Ruth Youngs Lew, PEO Digital and Enterprise Companies; Les Hubbard, PEO Manpower, Logistics and Enterprise Options (MLB); and Rear Adm. Kurt Rothenhaus, PEO Command, Management, Communications, Computer systems and Intelligence (C4I).
Small kicked off the panel speaking about how we’re in a strategic competitors with near-peer adversaries, and emphasised the significance of knowledge as a useful resource and the way obtainable information have to be leveraged to battle and win in opposition to these rivals.
Pope echoed Small specializing in the entrepreneurial spirit of the NAVWAR workforce. Via assets like information science programs supplied to all NAVWAR staff, he highlighted how essential it’s for workers to be educated about information and the way it contributes to fleet readiness.
“One of many issues we’ve completed to open up the entrepreneurial spirit of our workforce is having steppingstone courses about information science and administration so our staff can develop the dialogue and abilities to handle information themselves,” stated Pope. “We completely accomplice with business, academia and different warfare facilities, however we additionally need our personal workforce to deal with issues utilizing instruments they’ve discovered from these information science programs.”
Youngs Lew additionally spoke a few latest effort centered on information transport and information safety, particularly modernizing the Navy and Marine infrastructure to permit for the safe motion of knowledge. As a part of these efforts, they’re rolling out Flank Velocity, a cloud Microsoft 365 enterprise that features Outlook, Groups and OneDrive to help a extra productive workforce and elevated connectivity.
Because the chief of PEO MLB, Hubbard talked concerning the determination to arrange MLB into three pillars, with an emphasis on information transformation companies. As a result of MLB manages, acquires and delivers IT capabilities throughout 9 of the 12 DoD info domains throughout the Navy, a key purpose is to allow the actionable use of all that information and ensure the individuals who want to make use of that info can entry and put it to use effectively.
“We organized MLB with the information transportation companies pillar within the center as a result of a lot of the Navy’s information strikes by means of PEO MLB programs,” Hubbard stated. “Enabling the usage of that information, guaranteeing it’s obtainable and consumable, is entrance and middle as certainly one of our key strategic objectives.”
Along with offering warfighting crucial information, Rothenhaus emphasised the significance of offering our Sailors with agile software program programs to allow them to battle and win in opposition to any potential adversaries. Every thing they do as a part of PEO C4I must be in a digital, seamless move to get functionality out to the warfighter.
“It’s crucial that we offer our Sailors with the instruments to be self-sufficient, that they’re geared up with the coaching and help the place and when required,” stated Rothenhaus, “together with in a contested battle on a extremely dangerous networking day, in order that they’re able to function irrespective of the circumstances.”
Small wrapped up the occasion with a deal with information in relation to Venture Overmatch, a excessive precedence initiative geared toward connecting platforms, weapons, and sensors collectively in a strong Naval Operational Structure that integrates with Joint All-Area Command and Management for enhanced Distributed Maritime Operations. Important to Venture Overmatch is the event of networks, infrastructure, information structure, instruments and analytics that help the operational and developmental atmosphere that can allow sustained maritime dominance for years to come back.
About NAVWAR:
NAVWAR identifies, develops, delivers and sustains info warfighting capabilities and companies that allow naval, joint, coalition and different nationwide missions working in warfighting domains from seabed to house and thru our on-line world. NAVWAR consists of greater than 11,000 civilian, lively obligation and reserve professionals positioned world wide.
