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Cyber

New DoD CIO Details Strategy To Future Technology Initiatives

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, May 17th, 2018

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New DoD CIO Details Strategy To Future Technology Initiatives

New DoD CIO Dana Deasy (right) discusses his strategy at the AFCEA Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

The Pentagon’s new chief information officer offered the first glimpse of his strategy at a Thursday conference, with a focus on sticking to principles in the latest National Defense Strategy and emphasizing improvement of current DoD technology.Dana Deasy, who was sworn in as DoD CIO on May 7, said he will pursue big tent initiatives such as cloud computing and machine learning but maintain a focus on working within the department’s massive IT infrastructure and meeting the Secretary of Defense’s…

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