Mobility Industry Day Attracts Top Information Technology Leaders

In July, the Department of Defense chief information officer (CIO) hosted a Mobility Industry Day at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. The chapter's Mobile Working Group (MWG) was tapped to help produce this noteworthy one-day event. The purpose of this unclassified conference was to facilitate conversation between industry mobility partners and Defense Department representatives. Security is imperative to the department as it moves toward greater use of mobile computing, but leaders there are taking a realistic and practical approach. “You're going to see a lot of headlines that say ‘secure mobility.' Blank that out. I want you to insert the words ‘secure enough mobility,'” Defense Department CIO Terry Halvorsen told a sold-out crowd. “What is secure enough?” The answer to this question, Halvorsen said, is something that the department and industry will have to determine. Speakers included Halvorsen; Lt. Gen. Mark Bowman, director, command, control, communications and computers/cyber, J-6, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Lt. Gen. Robert Ferrell, USA, CIO/G-6, U.S. Army; Lt. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins Jr., USAF, director, Defense Information Systems Agency and commander, Joint Force Headquarters, Department of Defense Information Networks; Vice Adm. Ted Branch, USN, deputy chief of naval operations for information dominance and director of naval intelligence; Maj. Gen. Robert Wheeler, USAF, deputy chief information officer for command, control, communications and computers (C4) and information infrastructure, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Brig. Gen. Kevin Nally, USMC, CIO and director of C4, U.S. Marine Corps; Frank Konieczny, chief technology officer, Office of Information Dominance and CIO, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, U.S. Air Force.

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