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Acting Pentagon CIO Halvorsen: Economics Drives The Cloud

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

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Acting Pentagon CIO Halvorsen: Economics Drives The Cloud

Navy CIO Terry Halvorsen will become acting Pentagon CIO this month. Photo: Department of the Navy.

In his last speech before taking the helm as the Pentagon’s Acting Chief Information Officer (CIO), Terry Halvorsen emphasized the importance of cost as the number one driver in IT decisions. Halvorsen, who currently serves as the Navy’s CIO, oversaw the transition of the service’s public facing websites to the cloud via Amazon Web Services--a move that has seen decreases in cost every quarter since its implementation. “The driver for the department was economics and will continue to be economics,”…

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