Image ( left ): Lauren Knausenberger , US Air Force
Chief Information Officer , greets US Air Force Lt . Col . Adam Williams , 52nd Communications Squadron commander , in front of
Club Eifel on Spangdahlem Air Base , Germany , July 21 , 2021 . Knausenberger visited Spangdahlem AB to discuss the Enterprise IT-asa-Service initiatives , as well as gain firsthand knowledge of 52nd CS cyberspace capabilities and innovations .
Lines of Effort shaping CIO ’ s strategy Last year , the DAF released its CIO strategy up to 2028 , highlighting six Lines of Effort to shape the department ’ s IT strategy going forward .
Covering topics such as cloud adoption , cybersecurity and AI , these topics were chosen to directly address the needs of the emerging strategic and technological environment in which the department operates .
“ The strategy has six lines of effort and it ’ s not anything too surprising . It might look a lot like what you would find in a commercial CIO strategy ,” Knausenberger explains .
The first Line of Effort is around the acceleration of cloud adoption . “ We have done a very good job in this area in that we have , I believe , the world ’ s largest cloud instantiation with over 750,000 users times multiple networks in the cloud , as well as a pretty robust multicloud environment within Cloud One . But we ’ re still just chipping the surface on that . We have a lot of things that we do need to migrate within the secret and top-secret realm as well .
“ We ’ re making it easier to consume cloud services , we ’ re being more transparent about the cost of those cloud services and we are removing some of the roadblocks to automate more of the process .”
As Knausenberger explains , the future of cybersecurity plays a major role and is the strategy ’ s second Line of Effort . “ Zero Trust plays a big role here . There ’ s a lot about workforce education here as well because every person has a responsibility in cyber . And then post-quantum encryption and in general crypto agility also play pretty heavily on the cybersecurity side .” technologymagazine . com 101