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2021-1-23 智邦网
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1月22日，美陆军新任首席信息官拉吉·伊耶尔宣布，美陆军正在制定体系数字战略，为多域战加强网络和人力储备。
伊耶尔将陆军首席信息官/G-6办公室一分为二，优化职责业务，加强陆军全球体系和战术网络统一管理，并明确陆军IT系统改革的优先重点。
伊耶尔与陆军负责 G-6的第一副参谋长约翰·莫里森中将密切合作。
该计划将明确IT基础设施建设规划，促进文化变革和技术创新，为数字时代发展要求奠定基础。
陆军IT经费预算明显不足，预算经费约140-150亿美元，但实际开支为160-170亿美元。
伊耶尔称，为取得成功，陆军必须改变政策，以获取和保持更多新技术，如对多域战密切相关的云计算技术。
为加强数字基础设施建设，节省经费开支，伊耶尔计划设立“陆军数字监督委员会”，按董事会模式运营，由首席信息官主持，向陆军副参谋长汇报工作。
Army working on strategy to prepare networks, workforce for digital transformation
The U.S. Army is developing an enterprise digital strategy as the service prepares its networks and workforce for multidomain operations, the service’s new chief information officer said Friday.
In his first public appearance Friday, Raj Iyer, the first civilian CIO of the Army, outlined his priorities for reforming the Army’s approach to IT after the service split its CIO/G-6 office into two positions to better align its IT positions as the service unifies its global enterprise and tactical networks. Iyer, who started his job in December, will work closely with Lt. Gen. John Morrison, the Army’s first deputy chief of staff for the G-6. Lt. Col. Mary Ricks, an Army spokesperson, said the service hasn’t confirmed a date to release the strategy.
The plan, Iyer said, will go beyond addressing IT infrastructure plans, outlining how the Army will prepare its workforce for the digital age by changing culture and fostering innovation. “It’s about how we leverage technologies, and how we’re going to … leapfrog into the future with digital transformation,” he said. “But along with that, we’re going to need digital skills, talent management.”
While Iyer has a massive undertaking as the Army prepares for future war-fighting needs, one of his priorities is to control the service’s IT spending. The Army is continually over budget on IT, allotting about $14-15 billion, but spending $16-17 billion, said.
When Iyer started, he said the then-secretary of the Army instructed him to manage the service’s IT portfolio like a business. Iyer said that goal has two parts: controlling costs and increasing revenue, which for the Army would mean enabling missions with IT. To control costs, Iyer said, the service will have to divest from legacy systems and invest in time- and cost-saving technologies, such as automation. To enable missions, he said the CIO’s office must be “front and center” to Army modernization, working closely with Army Futures Command.
For the Army to succeed, the service must rewrite policies to makes it easier to acquire and sustain new technologies, such as cloud computing, that are integral to the multidomain fight, Iyer said.
In his first few weeks on the job, he’s been talking with four-star and three-star commanders across the Army about what challenges they want to solve using new technologies.
“If there is a commander out there in the field that wants to leverage technology to meet the mission outcomes, and there’s some policy that’s standing in the way, to me, that’s the first thing we’re going to go after,” Iyer said. “That just cannot be.”
The new CIO position gives the IT chief more decision-making power for the enterprise, which the prior CIO/G-6 position didn’t have. The lack of an “empowered” CIO in the past meant that IT decisions were passed down to lower level decision-makers who didn’t have insight into the needs of the enterprise, leading to duplicated efforts and increased costs, Iyer said.
In the Army’s push to improve its digital infrastructure and save money, Iyer plans to establish an Army Digital Oversight Council to act similarly to a board of directors, chaired by the CIO and reporting to the vice chief of staff of the Army.
“If you look at how CIOs at Fortune 100 companies run, you know, they don’t make unilateral decisions. They are there … as co-equal business units along with with their peers, and they form a board of directors and collectively make decisions,” Iyer said. “That is where I want to take the Army.”
The previous Army secretary was prepared to sign off on digital oversight council but didn’t do so before the change in presidential administration, Iyer said. He will wait until new top Army leaders are confirmed before he formalizes the council.
“This is all about change management, right? This is asking the Army to do something that it has never done before.”
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