Pentagon CIO to get new authorities as military makes push into cloud, AI

/ January 4, 2019 at 2:07 PM
The Defense Department's chief information officer is about to get increased power to review military spending plans for information technology and cyber capabilities, as DOD makes a concerted push into cloud computing and prioritizes artificial intelligence. The military services and agencies will soon be required to send their proposed budgets for IT, networking, information assurance, cybersecurity and cyber capability architectures to the DOD CIO for review before delivering their spending plans to the Pentagon's comptroller. The CIO is then required...

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