The Central Intelligence Agency wants to make it easier to communicate with industry \u2014 so it\u2019s upgrading to email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking Oct. 2 at the VMware Public Sector Innovation Summit in Arlington, Virginia, CIA chief information officer Juliane Gallina said that the CIA was looking to replace its fax machines with email in a program called \u201cGray Magic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a new network; it\u2019s secure and it\u2019s designed specifically to allow industry partners to have their own secure, direct communications in collaboration with government to help us facilitate acquisitions and procurement,” Gallina said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gallina said that she is \u201choping\u201d that the new system will help better the \u201cquality and the content of our communications with industry.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re really dedicated to making it work,\u201d Gallina said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The program is currently in beta testing with some industry partners. This is one step that the CIA is making to \u201clubricate\u201d conversation with industry, Gallina said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf you do work with the CIA, you ought to have already applied for an account with Gray Magic,\u201d Gallina said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The CIA declined to provide further details on the program. Gallina\u2019s speech largely focused on CIA\u2019s efforts to better engage with industry. She said that since she joined the CIA in April of this year, she\u2019s had over 70 engagements with industry. Gallina is no stranger to industry, as she spent nearly a decade at IBM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI value those [conversations] and … I\u2019m encouraging members of my staff and others to partner with you and really listen,\u201d Gallina said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The CIA is also recompeting \u201calmost all of our major IT contracts,\u201d in the next two years, Gallina said. The CIA is also expanding its commercial cloud capabilities to a multivendor, multicloud environment, after choosing Amazon Web Services to build a $600 million cloud for the agency in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gallina said the CIA was looking \u201cto allow industry to teach us and show us how solutions can be provided without having government people always being right in the middle.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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