Chapter Hosts Joint Collaboration Luncheon

The chapter sponsored a luncheon in June at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, Virginia. The event featured Lt. Gen. Mark Bowman, USA, director, command, control, communications and computers/cyber, J-6, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Gen. Bowman outlined several growing pains for the Defense Department's network modernization effort. He declared himself unhappy with progress on command and control of Department of Defense Information Networks (DoDIN) and with the Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS), a major cybersecurity initiative. Gen. Bowman also provided an update on Defense Department efforts to bring more command and control (C2) over networks. “We're seeing people push back,” Gen. Bowman said. The general said he was also worried that the Defense Information Systems Agency might have too much on its plate right now.

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