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Empowered CIOs, Industry Partnerships Needed To Achieve Top DoD Information Priorities

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, February 14th, 2018

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Empowered CIOs, Industry Partnerships Needed To Achieve Top DoD Information Priorities

Brig. Gen. Kevin Kennedy, principal director the DoD Deputy CIO

Department of Defense officials are looking to new budget authorities for its chief information officers (CIO) and improved industry partnerships to meet its top information priorities for 2018, including pressing network management and communication needs. Brig. Gen. Kevin Kennedy, principal director the DoD deputy CIO, addressed the top priorities for his office over the next year at an event Wednesday, with the hopes that newly empowered authorities in the latest defense authorization bill will help address the department’s top cyber…

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