Military Information Technology

From 2004 to 2008 a mission begins to aggressively develop within the intelligence community that will change the face of the Department of Defense (DoD). Cyberspace Operations, particularly support to, breaks from small organizations and gains light in every day missions as well as the media. Complexity and connections of Cyberspace Operations makes this mission inherently a joint responsibility from training to execution. In the beginning the Army evaluated soldiers from all Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) and selected those that showed the capability to grasp complex problems and adapt to new technologies in order to staff this mission. These highly skilled soldiers received special training

The Department of Defense is one of the oldest executive departments of the executive branches in the United States of America and is in control of national security and the Armed Forces of the United States. More than 3 million employees embody the Department of Defense and control it’s day-to-day operations and is well funded with a budget of $680 billion thanks to a bill that passed 68-29 in 2010 . Under the Secretary of Defense there is a very powerful Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense, Teri Takai. Teri is responsible for developing strategic plans and to align with the department’s mission and the mission of the United States. The CIO of the Department of Defense interested me because of the decisions having to be made affect so many users. Every decision Teri makes has to be spot on and has to take in consideration, how it will hurt or benefit other departments or national security. The goal of the CIO is to unify the information management and to advance the technology vision of the department.

This is the greater context facing the U.S. Army’s 516th Signal Brigade based in Hawaii. The 516th Signal Brigade consists of 2,500 soldiers and federal employees responsible for the installation, operation, and defense of tactical and strategic information technology (IT) networks for the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theater (from Japan to Alaska). Every day the 516th Signal Brigade must defend against cyber-attacks, provide IT service support to many thousands of users, and remain prepared to deploy quickly its mobile communications teams in the event of conflict or a natural disaster. However, during my tenure within the brigade from 2013-2015, I discovered

I have a comprehensive understanding of the Department of Defense’s vision and direction and long-range plans and emerging technologies that can lead to proper programming and resource allocation. The Strategy of the DoD, DoN, and the USMC relies on the use of innovation and emerging technologies to maintain both a strategic and tactical advantage in the warfighting domain, and as a means of achieving efficiencies in the business domains. The DoD in general and the DoN specifically have in their vision statements and leadership direction that the services will use innovation both as a force multiplier and a means to achieve efficiencies and costs savings. While the various Services and Agencies within the DoD differ in some aspects, there are numerous similarities. They all have the vision and objectives to delivery information to the user to meet the Command and Control and IT needs, even in a contested environment. Generally, the goals within the Department are to consolidate and stabilize the infrastructure, unify communications, manage innovation, build and maintain a strategic workforce, consolidate datacenters leading to improve application portfolio access and management and lastly enhance network operations. I will point out here that I have been materially involved in all aspects of these

Moving forward, our Army's primary purpose is steadfast and resolute: to fight and win our Nation's wars. But we all know that the Army must be able to do much more than that. Today, we require an Army that is adaptive and innovative, flexible and agile, integrated and synchronized, lethal and discriminate. Even more critical in today's complex and uncertain environment, the Army is the decisive arm of the Joint Force in a broad range of missions. Historically the Army has been focused on a specific set of needs, but these needs and the means in which they are resourced have changed. So we must fundamentally change how we do business. As we keep adding rocks to our Soldiers' rucksacks, all leaders must remain cognizant over time. Everyone's load can get too heavy and cause permanent wear and tear. So it is a good idea to

Leaders must guide the order and new situations. Manpower is minimized by cutbacks and deployments. Technology is the new era. The technology is mixed with innovative ways to use in war.

For persons that are familiar with the veterans’ system, your knowledge will be extremely valuable to veterans and such knowledge can be easily shared using the different social media networking sites as this allows for connection to millions of veterans in different locations.

Technology today is more relied upon than ever before. If one needs to call someone half way around the world, simply take out a cell phone and dial their number. Within thirty seconds, one can be speaking to that person just as if two people were conversing face-to-face. In the same manner, one has access to endless knowledge and resources by the pushing of a few buttons or the click of a mouse. The usage of social media today is becoming more prevalent than ever before because of the convenience it offers. This convenience includes being able to instantly know where a person is, what they are doing, and how they are feeling. All of these instances have one main commonality : technology. The interminable technological advances one has

On 22 January 2013, General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff released a white paper describing his vision for the Joint Information Environment (JIE) and how it would support operations in the years to come.1 This mandated transition is driving a reassessment of the most appropriate command and control (C2) structure to conduct operations within the domain. Attempts to achieve a standardized fully interoperable environment will only achieve limited success due to the innate variability and changing nature of technology, exacerbated by service unique capabilities and requirements as well as inconsistent funding. Existing C2 models either fail to address the uniqueness of operations in the cyber domain or otherwise fail to

Earth is fragmented with the idea of nations. Though fasted communication networks have made the world smaller, borderless world seems a distant dream. Each nation in the world possesses fancy military weapons, whole big chunk of uniformed soldiers in the name of self defense. Yes, there are always pros and cons associated with the military. At the time of natural disasters, military is the one who lends helping hand much faster. But sometimes brutality of the military while evading the other nation cannot be overlooked. United States of America (USA) considered as the mighty nation in the world possess biggest military in the world. Any international dispute, international terrorism, US military does not stay behind

The issue at hand is the ability for the Army to balance the need to remain globally responsive while balancing the distinct possibility the United States will face a substantial

In a speech at George Washington University in November of 2015, the United States Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter also addressed challenges facing the United States, stating that the security of the US depends on a force better than it is today. This force not only includes the military services, but also extends to the civilian workforce of the combat support agencies, upon which this paper focuses. The vision of the future force is one that can quickly adapt and achieve success in a sophisticated, highly-technical and rapidly changing environment; maximize the benefits of commercial technology development; and address global military competition to defend the nation and make the world a better place.

Information technology has advanced in multiple ways in society, where organizations has implement the structure into their work environment. Industries have outsource their manufacturing to other places in the world and rely on telecommunication to keep the marketing. The geographic distribution has changed significantly by reducing the distance it takes to complete an operation, due to information technology. These are just a couple of examples of how this advanced technology has reshape our society and continuing.

An Army Information Technology Specialist is someone who is responsible for maintaining, processing, and troubleshooting military computer systems and operations. The job also consists of carrying out other tasks for example, writing, analyzing, editing, testing and modifying computer programs in the Army. I would be in control of transferring data between information processing equipment and systems. Assisting in design, preparation, editing, and testing of computer programs are all examples of responsibilities I would be held accountable for when working

My essay is about the use of cutting edge technology in the army and the civilian life. Cutting-edge technology refers to technological devices, techniques or achievements that employ the most current and high-level IT developments; in other words, technology at the frontiers of knowledge. Leading and innovative IT industry organizations are often referred to as cutting edge. Cutting-edge technology is now being used to improve customer service in the food service, industries, hospitals, and homes and especially in our military. For example; there are digital kiosks, iPads, kindle, computers, self-drive cars, self-operate planes, drones, robots that looks like humans, and many more things.