Chapter Hosts 5th Annual Mobile Technology Summit

The chapter's Mobile Working Group Steering Committee sponsored the 5th Annual Mobile Technology Summit held on January 21, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. The event focused on ROI for Mobile Insertion into the Department of Defense Enterprise and explored the implementation, security, management and deployment of mobile devices, applications, sensors and infrastructure. The summit featured keynote and breakout panel discussions from government and industry leaders in the mobile technology space. The chapter is continuing the dialogue on how government can capitalize on commercial innovation in mobility. Mobility must go beyond smartphones and tablets to equip the new work force. The U.S. government and industry are at a critical juncture in the development of the much-anticipated fifth generation, or 5G, mobile networks slated for rollout in five years, and are presented with opportunities to work in tandem to build in security measures to protect the whole of communication networks. The computing technology boom morphed operations into a mobile world that has left the federal government, particularly the Defense Department, trailing industry in the area of mobility, said Maj. Gen. Sarah Zabel, USAF, vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Enabling a mobile work force within the Defense Department is a big task and officials have a lot of distance to cover, Maj. Gen. Zabel said at the summit.

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