{"id":37628,"date":"2021-01-13T21:55:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/01\/13\/navy-cio-2021-priorities-dont-return-to-pre-covid-it-practices\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:31:11","slug":"navy-cio-2021-priorities-dont-return-to-pre-covid-it-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2021\/01\/13\/navy-cio-2021-priorities-dont-return-to-pre-covid-it-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy CIO 2021 priorities: Don\u2019t return to pre-COVID IT practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 In 2020, the year marked by telework due to COVID-19, the U.S. Navy learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/it-networks\/2020\/04\/16\/how-dod-expanded-its-networks-to-beat-the-telework-spike\/\" target=_blank>it could move rapidly on IT projects<\/a>. The service doubled its bandwidth in weeks. It built two new sites for its virtual private networks. It quadrupled its telework capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the service did in weeks what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/2020\/06\/01\/what-progress-has-the-navy-made-on-it-modernization\/\" target=_blank>Navy Chief Information Officer Aaron Weis<\/a> said would normally take years, he wants to ensure that the Navy doesn\u2019t revert to pre-pandemic IT practices that it cast off to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/yahoo-syndication\/2020\/07\/23\/pentagon-explores-what-telework-capabilities-to-make-permanent\/\" target=_blank>enable telework for the service <\/a>in response to COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNow that we know that we can fly, you know, we don\u2019t settle for ground travel,\u201d Weis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the pandemic, the Navy was in the midst of a Microsoft Office 365 pilot. The Marine Corps went from zero Office 365 users to about 150,000, Weis said, while the Navy scaled a 10,000 user pilot program up to 160,000 users \u2014 in about six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original timetable to deliver Office 365 to that many users was five years. To be successful in the remote work environment, the Navy set aside the normal processes that slow down IT projects under normal circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA lot of that process doesn\u2019t add any value,\u201d Weis said. \u201cAnd &#8230; we have very fragmented [command and control] and accountability over our IT infrastructure, which, in normal times makes it very difficult for us to move the needle. COVID in the IT world is kind of the equivalent of wartime powers for IT. We just did it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2021\/01\/11\/pentagon-shattered-speed-record-to-give-1-million-people-remote-work-tools\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cvr3.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Pentagon shattered speed record to give 1 million people remote work tools<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">How top IT leaders toppled constraints that mire software projects to fast-track the remote collaboration platform.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weis added that some people in the service that have suggested returning to old practices and timelines. When the topic comes up, Weis highlights the potential cost savings from moving faster, so IT leaders can continue the momentum they gained during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building out a cloud-enabled IT infrastructure, which was a major push for the Navy last year, is an area where massive cost savings can be found. The Navy CIO\u2019s office released in early December policy updates to accelerate cloud services adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat that enables you to do is undergo a wholesale transformation for how you deliver a capability, and at the end of that transformation you will be able to retire huge swaths of legacy infrastructure,\u201d Weis said. \u201cAnd that legacy infrastructure are boat anchors we drag around, that cost us &#8230; a lot of money. They expose us from a cybersecurity and risk perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>IT portfolio review<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In December, the Navy announced that it had begun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks\/2020\/12\/15\/navy-reviews-4-billion-it-portfolio-to-streamline-strengthen\/\" target=_blank>a review of its $4 billion IT portfolio<\/a> to better understand its IT infrastructure and improve how it allocates resources. Weis told C4ISRNET that the portfolio review was part of the service\u2019s effort to \u201cput math around a huge wedge of our IT spend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe main goal coming out of that is math,\u201d he said. \u201cTo be able to apply real math to the questions at hand around investment, alignment of investment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IT office wants to know how much it\u2019s spending and the amount of assets it has, including software and hardware. The office wants to get a better handle on where its legacy and excepted networks are and how much they cost the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy is doing the portfolio review in a new way, Weis said. Instead of a traditional call for data, the service is connecting existing data sources into an enterprise data repository.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2020\/04\/21\/for-the-navys-hospital-ships-networking-is-yet-another-challenge\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4391472.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">For the Navy\u2019s hospital ships, networking is yet another challenge<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Navy&#039;s hospital ships provide health care to individuals, but they must also ensure the cyber wellness of the devices onboard.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re making joins between sources of data that weren\u2019t initially set up to do that, and creating a mass of data that allows us to have huge insights into that IT infrastructure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Other 2021 goals<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IT office wants to focus on making its infrastructure enduring, Weis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service will meet that goal in part through new policies and memos, including forthcoming memo that will outline how the CIO shop is delivering new capabilities in the context of its cloud infrastructure. That memo is coming \u201cvery soon,\u201d according to Weis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy will also work toward making data more accessible, he said, a critical piece of multidomain operations and better-informed decision-making for commanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat are the authoritative sources of data? Where do we see those and now how do we flatten that data and make it broadly available for others for transformational effort?,\u201d Weis said. \u201cThat will be important.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data is a key element to all the military services\u2019 efforts on all-domain operations, including the Navy\u2019s Project Overmatch, its tactical network effort to connect sensors and shooters. Weis is part of the Project Overmatch executive steering group, where he will help ensure that the project fits into the framework of the Navy\u2019s information superiority vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe requirement going forward and in the modern world is that we can securely move any information from anywhere to anywhere,\u201d Weis said. \u201cThat\u2019s a baseline requirement going forward. And that, while that\u2019s very simple to say, that\u2019s not how our infrastructure and our networks are organized today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The overhauled tactical network will have to plug in with the Navy\u2019s enterprise network, an effort called Project Plaid. 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