{"id":3379,"date":"2023-05-12T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:04:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:04:30","slug":"dod-cio-taking-over-as-5g-lead-expanding-pilot-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3379","title":{"rendered":"DoD CIO taking over as 5G lead, expanding pilot programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-60-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-3380\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-60-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-60-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-60-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-60-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-60-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-60-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-60-1400x788.png 1400w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-60-390x219.png 390w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-60.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Pentagon\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/dod-cio\/\">chief information office<\/a>&nbsp;will take over all&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/5g\/\">5G<\/a>-related activities within the department at the start of the next fiscal year, as it moves towards \u201can open network, open software approach\u201d for industry to \u201cdominate\u201d and have a leg up against adversaries like China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at a Defense Tech Week event today, Pentagon CIO&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/john-sherman\/\">John Sherman<\/a>&nbsp;said his office \u201cis taking over the 5G lead for DoD,\u201d on Oct. 1 and has already been working on this area with the under secretary of defense for research and engineering\u2019s office. The move would seemingly shift the Pentagon\u2019s 5G efforts from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/undersecretary-of-defense-for-research-engineering\/\">USD R&amp;E\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;5G Principal Director Thomas Rondeau, who resides in the office of the deputy chief technology officer, to Sherman\u2019s office.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the takeover Sherman said his office will look at expanding the Pentagon\u2019s existing 5G pilot programs to additional DoD installations and added he\u2019ll be looking specifically at open radio access network, or O-RAN, pilots.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CIO\u2019s office is working with a number of US companies to expand the pilots \u201cas we move away from a closed-network kind of black box sort of thing, like certain Chinese companies like to do with their global marketing here\u201d \u2014 seemingly a stray shot at Chinese-owned TikTok \u2014 \u201cto more of an open-network, open-software approach that our US industry can work and dominate on,\u201d Sherman said. \u201cAnd this is something that we at DoD can help catalyze.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon in October 2020&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2020\/11\/5g-experiments-may-lead-to-battlefield-applications-dod\/\">awarded $600 million<\/a>&nbsp;for the first set of three-year pilots at five bases in an effort to inform the department\u2019s adoption of 5G networks. The first wave of pilots involved over 100 companies, with half of them being non-traditional industry partners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first set of pilots were shared among four military services exploring spectrum sharing, building 5G networks for virtual\/augmented reality training and building \u201csmart warehouses.\u201d The locations for the first tranche included Hill Air Force Base in Utah, Joint Base Lewis-McChord (Army and Air Force) in Washington, Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany in Georgia, Naval Base San Diego and Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same year in June, DoD announced seven more sites under the second tranche of 5G pilot awards, this time with a key focus on spectrum sharing with the private sector: Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (Navy and Air Force) in Hawaii, Joint Base San Antonio and Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. Fort Hood (recently renamed to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2023\/05\/09\/fresh-name-fort-hood-base-faces-scrutiny.html\">Fort Cavazos<\/a>), Fort Irwin and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton were also chosen as pilot test sites under the second set of awards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s some due diligence we have to do on this,\u201d Sherman said about the Pentagon\u2019s 5G efforts. \u201cBut I do want to move along on this if at all possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DoD Standing Up New Office Focused On Bettering User Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, DoD will be opening up a new office dedicated to user experience (UX), one of Sherman\u2019s top priority areas. The new office will be similar to the Pentagon\u2019s zero trust portfolio management office within the DoD CIO, which was formally stood up last year and is being lead by Randy Resnick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got to find the right human to lead it with his same level of expertise and passion,\u201d Sherman said. \u201cBut for UX, the same as we have for zero trust, a small team, not to try to centrally manage everything but to coordinate the same as we\u2019re doing for zero trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re already working this right now across a lot of great stakeholders, but also moving along here on what we\u2019re doing on [customer experience] in the department,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sherman did not say when the UX office will be established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2023\/02\/jwcc-zero-trust-user-experience-a-new-cyber-talent-strategy-dod-cio-sets-fy23-priorities\/\">interview<\/a>&nbsp;with Breaking Defense last year, Sherman said improving UX will be an emphasis for his office moving forward.&nbsp;His comments at the time were prompted by an \u201copen letter\u201d that went semi-viral on LinkedIn from an Air Force officer begging DoD to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2022\/02\/military-cios-say-they-take-fix-our-computers-rant-to-heart\/\">\u201cfix our computers\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;before investing in other areas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sherman and the CIO\u2019s of the Army, Air Force and Navy responded with their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/dod-cio_cybersecurity-activity-6895389782961205248-ZW0O\/\">own LinkedIn post\u00a0<\/a>saying they took the dialogue \u201cto heart\u201d and acknowledged that more work needs to be done on UX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article:<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2023\/05\/dod-cio-taking-over-as-5g-lead-expanding-pilot-programs\/\">https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2023\/05\/dod-cio-taking-over-as-5g-lead-expanding-pilot-programs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2023\/05\/essential-issues-impacting-our-national-security-today\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2023\/04\/ping-ping-bringing-autonomy-to-map-the-undersea-world-for-the-navy\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Pentagon\u2019s&nbsp;chief information office&nbsp;will take over all&nbsp;5G-related activities within the department at the start of the next fiscal year, as it moves towards \u201can open network, open software approach\u201d for industry to \u201cdominate\u201d and have a leg up against adversaries like China. Speaking at a Defense Tech Week event today, Pentagon CIO&nbsp;John Sherman&nbsp;said his office \u201cis taking over the 5G lead for DoD,\u201d on Oct. 1 and has already been working on this area with the under secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-threat-to-america"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}