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Lisa Wolfe
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Federal News Radio
Both of those things are true of the Air Force. Soin early December
2015, the 24th Air Force the services cyber and network
operations specialists stood up aspecial mission team that
will undertake an end-to-end examination of the complex web
of both modern and legacy systems that make up the services
personnel and pay infrastructure and what can be done to make it
morereliable.
Each time a key link in the Air Forces HR IT enterprise goes offline for a few hours, the services
productivity losses are measured in man-years not man-hours, saidBill Marion, the chief
information officer for the Air Force headquarters manpower, personnel and services organization
(A1).
When were down for three hours and then, with the latency it takes us another 45 minutes to
process each civilian hire, that has serious domino effects, Marion said at an annual Air Force
IT conference hosted by AFCEAs Northern Virginia chapter. We need to root out any of the
inefficiencies we have.
Part of the issue is sheer complexity: To process service members and civilians pay and personnel
transactions, the Air Force today uses 120 separate systems 86 of which duplicate others that
provide similar capabilities at 213 sites around the world.
The disaggregated nature of those IT systems means HR also is an extremely expensive and
manpower-intensive business for the Air Force, costing $1.3 billion per year and requiring one HR
specialist for every 22 airmen on the services payroll.
For the last five years, the Air Force has had a plan to replace several dozen of its legacy HR systems
with a commercially-based enterprise resource planning system it dubs Air Force Integrated Pay and
Personnel System (AF-IPPS).
In August 2015, the Air Force got the go-ahead to host sensitive data in a commercial cloud
environment at what DoDdefinesas impact level four. Since then, it has become the first DoD
component to transition critical mission information into a nongovernment cloud.
The project involves the Air Forces existing myPers portal, which lets airmen handle some pay and
benefits matters on a self-service basis.
Weve still got a few critical steps to go because its the first time weve done this within the DoD,
with new concepts like cloud access points and rules for email flows, but the core is in place, Marion
said. We see great benefits coming from it.
Finally an Answer
Emerges for Why IPv6?
BY JASON MILLER
Cloud.gov enables 18F to deploy its cloudbased applications with baseline security and
scalability concerns addressed consistently up
front, without dramatically scaling the number
of cloud operations experts in our organization,
an 18F spokesman said by email.
But if cloud services are widely considered
a commodity, then why is the government
competing with the private sector to offer these
services?
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Army
T
Shops
Cloud
Vendors
to Host
Enterprise
Apps
BY JARED SERBU
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investigation. And
under task orders
issued for DoDs
highest unclassified
cloud security
designation
Level 5 all
government data
would have to be
kept physically
separate from
commercial clients.
Keeping that
flexibility is important
for us because
we know that the
guidance and policies
for commercial cloud
in DoD have been
changing and will
continue to change.
DOUG HASKIN, PROJECT DIRECTOR FOR
ARMY ENTERPRISE SERVICES
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