{"id":22605,"date":"2021-01-20T22:05:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T22:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/01\/20\/pentagon-announces-new-acting-cio-as-deasy-departs\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:54:08","slug":"pentagon-announces-new-acting-cio-as-deasy-departs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2021\/01\/20\/pentagon-announces-new-acting-cio-as-deasy-departs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon announces new acting CIO as Deasy departs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Former intelligence community IT chief John Sherman will fill in as acting Defense Department chief information officer during a high-profile review to root out any damage from a major government cybersecurity breach through a software supplier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sherman, who served three years as intelligence community CIO, will replace DoD CIO Dana Deasy, who left as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/01\/20\/biden-inaugurated-commander-in-chief-amid-heavy-military-presence-at-capitol\/\" target=_blank>presidential administration changed Wednesday<\/a>. Sherman will lead the department\u2019s IT operations until President Joe Biden nominates, and the Senate confirms, a new CIO. The job became a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/it-networks\/cloud\/2019\/10\/29\/how-the-pentagon-still-struggles-to-explain-its-massive-cloud-contract\/\" target=_blank>Senate-confirmed position<\/a> for the first time under Deasy\u2019s tenure, which started in April 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sherman served as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/it-networks\/2020\/09\/28\/six-questions-with-the-pentagons-new-principal-deputy-cio\/\" target=_blank>Deasy\u2019s top deputy<\/a> since June 2020. With the intelligence community, he led major information technology efforts to implement cloud computing and break down collaboration barriers across the IC\u2019s then-17 agencies. (There are now 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2021\/01\/14\/space-force-joins-the-intelligence-community\/\" target=_blank>with the Space Force<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his time as Pentagon CIO, most employees will still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/it-networks\/2021\/01\/11\/pentagon-shattered-speed-record-to-give-1-million-people-remote-work-tools\/\" target=_blank>work remotely<\/a> because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Plus, the department will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/cyber\/2020\/12\/17\/its-going-to-take-a-lot-of-digging-the-pentagons-long-search-to-see-if-anyones-hiding-in-its-networks\/\" target=_blank>continue its search<\/a> for potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks\/2020\/12\/27\/very-difficult-to-defend-what-happens-if-hackers-are-inside-the-pentagons-networks\/\" target=_blank>damage from the hack<\/a> pinned on Russia, a breach that one U.S. senator called Tuesday \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/cyber\/2021\/01\/20\/after-huge-hack-biden-security-picks-want-more-cyber-coordination-with-industry\/\" target=_blank>greatest cyber intrusion<\/a> in the history, I think, perhaps, of the world.\u201d The hackers infiltrated numerous government agencies through IT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/it-networks\/2021\/01\/12\/reports-had-warned-about-supply-chain-hacks\/\" target=_blank>software from contractor SolarWinds<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under Deasy, the department released a digital modernization strategy that included a heavy focus on cloud computing and emerging technology, though the department failed to acquire a long-desired enterprise cloud environment, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, due to court challenges and protests. Sherman\u2019s cloud computing experience includes helping prepare the intelligence community for a multicloud, multivendor environment known as the IC\u2019s Commercial Cloud Enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMoving to a cloud enterprise is not just a technical question. It\u2019s a question of culture, making sure people think cloud first,\u201d Sherman told C4ISRNET last year. \u201cAs they do things like software development and DevSecOps, not just forklifting capabilities to the cloud, but really focusing on cloud native approaches. That\u2019s one big area, and this is a major paradigm shift for agencies and enterprises to get their head around.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DoD, like the intelligence community, is challenged by the isolated nature of its agencies and offices. To enable joint war fighting, a major effort across the Pentagon, the silos will have to break to enable the services to share the data critical to multidomain operations. The key to breaking down those stovepipes is \u201cleadership, plain and simple,\u201d Sherman said in an interview with C4ISRNET last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are technical, where are you going to store the data, how you\u2019re going to compute. But in my experience, a lot of it is pure leadership, and doing those structural sort of things to make sure you can surface it in a timely and efficient way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While serving as principal deputy CIO, Sherman led the department\u2019s modernization effort for its fourth estate agencies, those that don\u2019t fit squarely under a military department. 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