Is Pentagon’s Push to a Joint Information Environment in Trouble?
By Frank Konkel July 19, 2016 1 Comment
The Pentagon announced the Joint Information Environment in 2010 as a massive effort to consolidate an IT infrastructure that supports more than 2 million military active duty and civilian personnel around the world.
But a recent audit from the Government Accountability Office – released six years into JIE – suggests the modernization effort lacks a management plan: Defense officials can’t project what it might cost because of its complexity, and officials disagree over what is or isn’t included under JIE.
The Pentagon estimates it spent $900 million from fiscal 2013-2016 on JIE and anticipates another $1.6 billion will go toward it through fiscal 2021. But DOD has yet to develop an estimate of the cost to adopt JIE, according to GAO, because of the “size and complexity of DOD infrastructure and JIE’s implementation approach.”
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