{"id":14858,"date":"2020-05-06T14:17:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2020\/05\/06\/telework-programs-at-dod-could-stick-around-after-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:42:23","slug":"telework-programs-at-dod-could-stick-around-after-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/show-reporter\/c4isrnet-conference\/2020\/05\/06\/telework-programs-at-dod-could-stick-around-after-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Telework programs at DoD could stick around after coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The coronavirus pandemic sent the Pentagon\u2019s IT officials scrambling to prepare its workforce and network for telework. Now, as the Department of Defense begins to ponder what effective work looks like after successfully carrying out its mission during months of work from home, some changes may stick around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a new way of doing business,\u201d Essye Miller, principal deputy in the office of the DoD chief information officer, said May 6 at the C4ISRNET Conference. \u201cWe have to define what that looks like based on the mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cObviously we\u2019ve got people working in various environments, classified [and] unclassified. Organizations will have to figure out what\u2019s important to them: what has to be accomplished inside a physical facility and what can be done remotely; how we need to measure those outcomes; and, not to mention, what we need to equip our workforce with to accomplish that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of mid-April, the department handed out 2,000 remote devices to personnel, doubled the Pentagon\u2019s call volume capacity and increased its internet connection by 30 percent. Miller also said the Defense Information Systems Agency has expanded endpoint management capacity by 327 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\t