Defense Department CIO Terry Halvorsen will be retiring in February. In Jan. 11 a press call with reporters, he said his last day will be Feb. 28.
One of the main lines of effort under JIE include JRSS, which DISA\u2019s Cyber Development Directorate director John Hickey said Jan. 12 is “still our number one cyber initiative.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“JIE is a concept \u2013 this document supports the concept of what we want in a joint information environment. I think we\u2019ll have to change the [term] because it\u2019s too confusing \u2013 it\u2019s not a program, it\u2019s not an it. It doesn\u2019t deliver; it\u2019s a concept,” he told reporters in August regarding the DoD “Information Technology Environment Way Forward to Tomorrow’s Strategic Landscape,” a new plan for getting ahead in information technology. “This [document] is absolutely 100 percent of getting to a concept of a JIE, but what it\u2019s trying to do today is lay out the discrete elements of getting to a pathway toward JIE concepts. Its 100 percent aligned with the vision of a joint information environment, but I think what we did was not explain enough that JIE was a vision and what we put out initially for JIE, the end game is the same \u2013 but the way of getting their has changed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Notably, Halvorsen has also pushed for the elimination of common access cards. “We are embarking on a two-year plan to eliminate [common access cards] from our information systems,” he said in June. “Frankly, CAC cards are not agile enough\u2026It’s really hard to get you a CAC card when people are dropping mortar shells on you and you need to get into your system. That doesn’t work.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
The way forward, instead, will be hybrid authentication or a “true multi-factor” combining attributes such as biometrics, behavioral analytics and passwords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“If I structure it right, I could build the behavior pattern of that person\u2019s identity. We can like it or not, but one of the best ways for me to check security is to see if their behavior pattern has deviated,” he said. “So some of the things we are thinking about is some combination of behavioral, probably biometric and maybe some personal data information that is set for individuals. There are other thoughts like iris scans. All of those are doable today.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the Jan. 11 call Halvorsen admitted some of his other plans, such as closing hundreds of DoD data centers and upgrading military computers to Windows 10 by the end of January 2017, have not fared as well, with both efforts behind schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We\u2019re not where I would have liked to have been but showing good progress,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before serving as DoD CIO, Halvorsen was acting DoD CIO and is the former Department of Navy CIO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amber Corrin contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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