
The Pentagon’s top official for information technology said Wednesday that contractors will have to be pressured to meet the lowest required bandwidth requirements as the building transitions to a unified and interoperable IT framework. “If you are going to develop software for us, you must develop it to require the minimum bandwidth possible,” Terry Halvorsen, the acting Pentagon CIO, said at a conference in Washington. “Harsher” rules are needed to ensure bandwidth and money are used more effectively, he said.…