How the coronavirus forced the Pentagon to improve its IT — and quickly

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 How the coronavirus forced the Pentagon to improve its IT — and quickly
 
May 10, 2020 Patrick Tucker - Defense One
 

The COVID-enforced shift to “maximum telework” has forced the Defense Department to update its information technology so that more employees can work remotely — and push critical communications to the front lines faster.

“We are creating a much more robust, enhanced teleworking capability,” Defense Department Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy told reporters at the Pentagon on Monday. “What we’ve done is put a multiplier effect into the quantity, types of services, etc. There will be some permanency to what we have here, specifically more on the network side. We will also have created a base of teleworking equipment that we will be able to, in some cases, reuse for other purposes. But yes, there will be an enhanced teleworking capability that will be sustained at the end of COVID-19.”

On March 27, the Pentagon rolled out a Commercial Virtual Remote environment, or CVR — basically, a big cloud-based web service for videoconferencing, collaboration, and the like — in order to help troops, employees, and contractors get work done at home during the pandemic. The CVR now has 900,000 user accounts. Deasy called it the “largest rollout ever implemented in this amount of time.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/05/how-the-coronavirus-forced-the-pentagon-to-improve-its-it-and-quickly/

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How the coronavirus forced the Pentagon to improve its IT — and quickly
 
May 10, 2020 Patrick Tucker - Defense One
 

The COVID-enforced shift to “maximum telework” has forced the Defense Department to update its information technology so that more employees can work remotely — and push critical communications to the front lines faster.

I'd like to hear from our IT experts, but it seems to me a system with more reliance on remote access would cause a greater chance and probability of hacking from unwelcome parties.  Again, I may be wrong though.