From: FierceGovernmentIT
By David Perera
The Joint Information Environment is not an attempt by the Defense Information Systems Agency to take over all the Defense Department’s data centers, said Tony Montemarano, DISA director of strategic planning and information.
The JIE is “not about DISA controlling the world, DISA über alles,” he said. “The military departments have got formidable capabilities…it makes no sense to turn them off.” He spoke March 25 at an ACT-IAC event in downtown Washington, D.C.
The intent behind the JIE is to create a “single environment” and was instigated by Cyber Command head Gen. Keith Alexander’s conclusion that inconsistencies in information technology management made protecting military information technology from cyber attacks untenable, Montemarano said.
“It’s not to say individual securities aren’t appropriate for what they have, but as far as the mesh is concerned, they are inconsistent,” he added.
The relationship between military department data center infrastructure and the JIE is under discussion; among the models being discussed is federation or giving some military data centers a JIE franchise with which they could take in cost-reimbursable business.
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