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What Army Learned Moving To New Email System

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The Army’s migration to an enterprise-wide email system, after years of false starts and execution detours, is gaining significant momentum and appears on track to hit the 1.4 million user mark by March 31, Army program officials told AOL Government.

While enterprise email and communications systems are taken for granted at most organizations, Army soldiers and civilians – and most military personnel – have had to get by without the convenience of having a single globally-accessible email account, capable of communicating sensitive information securely anywhere in the world. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 31, 2012 at 8:45 AM

Army’s Resource Forest Is Good Metaphor For System Of Systems Approach

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Earlier this month, I received the Department of Defense Request for Information (RFI) on the DoD Enterprise Information Web and a request to talk about how the semantic web can help DOD in particular, and perhaps the federal government on a broader scale as well.

Having recently completed a three month assignment at Binary Group to help bring semantic web standards and semantic technologies to various parts of the Department of Defense (DoD), I gained an increased appreciation and respect for the work of DoD and our service people. I learned more about their specific content and IT requirements and wanted to share some of my lessons learned with our readers.

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 /  Published November 30, 2011 at 11:05 AM