Army Chief Information Officer: Service Must Shift 'Systems Focus' To 'Application Focus'

By Tony Bertuca / July 13, 2010 at 7:19 PM
Seeking to emulate the business models of Apple and Google in the commercial smart phone sector, the Army is accelerating its efforts to create a common operating environment for network systems that would allow industry to create standardized applications and plug them into a single network, the service's chief information officer said today. Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, CIO/G-6, speaking at an Association of the United States Army breakfast, said the Army must speed up the process by which it acquires...

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