ladies and gentlemen may have your attention please the program will begin in 5 minutes at this time please move to your seats and help us start on schedule as a reminder please silence your electronic devices and leave them on so you can text or email your questions for our guest speakers to the address on the screen ask me TNA gmail.com e e e e e e e e e e e e [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] w [Music] n [Applause] ladies and Gentlemen please welcome to the stage Eric gladman Army National account manager for the SS Institute and president of the Atlant afia greater Augusta chapter hey thank you Paul very much for that uh Eric gladman here and uh before we have the general Morrison's keynote we have a couple chapter awards that we would like to present so just bear with with us for about 2 minutes we would appreciate it turn back to you Ben or Paul thank you please welcome to the stage FCA greater Augusta chapter's vice president for scholarships and education Dr Melissa Johnson PM for swave Solutions LLC and Mrs Justine McDonald senior cyber security engineer for titto aen and now please welcome Dr Kimberly Burr specialist jareda who could not be here today and Senior Airman Caleb sunstrom on stage for the presentation of the lieutenant general Douglas buol scholarships the greater Augusta chapter of AIA offers $2,000 scholarships to enlisted service members stationed at Fort Eisenhower who are pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in a stem field science technology engineering or mathematics at an accredited University this scholarship was established in 2004 by General Dynamics and afia to honor the late Lieutenant General Douglas buckolz in recognition of his dedication to encouraging service members to pursue technical education lieutenant general bual served as the 27th chief of signal for the Army and was the Commanding General of the US Army signal Center in Fort Eisenhower we are honored to have the very first recipient of the lieutenant general Douglas buckhalt scholarship in 2004 joining us today Dr Kimberly Burr she completed her bachelor's degree in electronics management 2005 her master's degree in 2006 and PhD in 2018 as a doctorate in philosophy of education curriculum and teaching after receiving the Buckle scholarship Dr bur became a very active volunteer with AIA working in membership scholarships and vice president for a year Dr bur currently works for the veterans Health Administration Office of Finance managerial cost accounting office as a director of training Dr Kimberly bur will be presenting this year's two recipients of the lieutenant general Douglas buck scholarship um specialist jard Duo could not be here today we have uh senior Airman Caleb sunstrom US Air Force 451st intelligence Squadron Fort Eisenhower Senior Airman sunstrom is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in cyber operations from the University of Arizona in [Applause] 202 in 2022 the FCA greater Augusta chapter established a new teachers award in honor of an educator that has had a profound impact on this region this award in honor of Dr sander caroway is designed to recognize the generational impact Dr caroway had on the education system in this region the students the teachers and the community as a whole Dr caroway served her entire adult life as an educator concluding a 36-year career in education as a Columbia County school superintendent where she served from 2 13 to 2021 in that capacity Dr carway provided Vision strategic leadership and an unwavering commitment to her Workforce her students and the community she loves to to ensure the K through2 education in this region served as a force multiplier and worthy of the Army's investment at this time please welcome to the stage the 2024 recipient of the Dr Sandra caroway outstanding educator award Miss Teresa Walker from monteano elementary school Mrs terresa Walker is an experienced Elementary School teacher in Richmond County with a career in education that began in 1995 initially she taught computer operations to both adults and children Miss Walker holds a Bachelor of Science degree in information technology and a master's degree in cyber security although education is her second career it is her true passion she considers teacher teaching to be one of the most meaningful profession and is dedicated to giving her students her full attention support and energy to help them succeed throughout her career she has taught in various locations including Broward County Florida and McDuffy County Georgia where she taught at an alternative school in Richmond County Miss Walker taught computer science at both the elementary and middle school levels focusing on coding and game design she has a deep love for math math which she shares with her third grade students fostering their enthusiasm for the subject currently Miss Walker teaches lower elementary students and is committed to using intervention strategies and Technology to enhance their education she consistently seeks to implement research-based strategies and interactive tools to engage her students she is proactive in requesting the resources necessary to support her students learning and is dedicated to their success ladies and gentlemen the FIA greater Augusta 2024 dror sander caroway outstanding CSRA educator award is awarded to miss Teresa Walker as a top educator in the CSRA who re reflects Dr caraway's character ideals leadership and unwavering commitment to support and Advance STEM related education opportunities for K through 12 [Applause] students please welcome Steve walang Chief techn sorry hey just one quick thing um please so I first of all I'd like to thank uh everybody that sponsors our golf tournament we had a great success yesterday General Lawrence gave us some guidance to to start early and we're glad we did yesterday so uh we kicked it off at 0800 which means we got up at about 03:30 in the morning to get that thing going and set up and uh we raised over $20,000 yesterday so I'd like to thank all the sponsorships that came out for that we we had several sponsors uh too many to list but I really we really appreciate it so just to give you an idea of where your your funds go uh last year here in the CSRA we did $330,000 worth of stem scholarships 15 of those um total 10 went to high school and five went to college and then we got the general buckolz award and we got one of the selectees here the winner and the other gentleman couldn't be here and then we also participate given $5,000 for the Cs Patriot cyber Patriot that camp that happened this past year and then uh the teachers um and I couldn't do it without Dr Johnson and Miss Justine down there because they they do so much for us and getting the information out to the CSRA and we gave over um $10,000 last year to the local CSRA uh teachers here so thank you so much for your for your participation and supporting the the local chapter here and uh we appreciate it thank you [Applause] please welcome Steve balang Chief technology officer of Nokia Federal solutions to the stage to introduce our next keynote speaker good afternoon everybody I am pleased to introduce the TechNet Augusta 2024 afternoon keynote transforming un the unified Network at Echelon on behalf of FIA International as he said I'm Steve vogo say CTO of Nokia Federal Solutions the complexities of Modern Warfare demand robust Rel reliable and secure communication networks that are increasingly focused on moving Data Nokia Federal Solutions is dedicated to meeting those needs building on Nokia's Global Leadership in technology and Innovation we provide a comprehensive Suite of solutions tailored for the US federal government from 5G private Wireless and tactical Wireless to secure IP and Optical transport networks our offerings are designed to empower your mission Nokia Bell Labs a world-renowned research Powerhouse fuels our commitment to Cutting Edge technology together we're driving advancements like massive myo Advanced beam forming Dynamic Spectrum sharing battlefield of things and postquantum encryption even pioneering non-terrestrial Network Solutions we believe that by working collaboratively with the US Army we can develop solutions that truly make a difference I'm honored today to introduce Lieutenant General John B Morrison deput Chief of Staff G6 United States Army in this capacity he is the principal military adviser to the Chief of Staff of the army for planning strategy and implementation of command control Communications computer cyber and information technology for worldwide Army operations Lieutenant General Morrison has a distinguished military career having previously served as the chief of staff of the United States cyber command he has also held various command and staff positions including Commanding General of the US Army Network Enterprise technology command and Commanding General of the seventh signal command ladies and gentlemen Lieutenant General John B [Applause] Morrison thanks a lot I appreciate it I don't know about you guys this music's killing me the uh first off good afternoon the uh it is an honor to be here as always I'd like to thank AIA for hosting this great conference 11 years you said ma'am I think I've been here for about 10 of them so this is absolutely fantastic Annie and I are absolutely thrilled to be back in Augusta and to see so many old friends the uh going to try and do something a little different uh I am not going to talk for very long because the best part of this I always feel is having a dialogue go back and forth but I do want to paint a little bit of a picture so I want you to imagine something you know imagine a division that does a 475 mile Air Assault has a distributed uh command footprint that covers that entire piece so just think Fort Campbell all the way down to Fort pulk division main up at uh Fort Campbell and they fly all the way down they do a joint forced entry in into Fort pulk move an entire Brigade via air that entire distance imagine a brigade command poost it's about four vehicles not the Taj mahals of years past something that can displac and and reestablish Communications in a few minutes not the hours or even days of yeser yor when we were trying to do it imagine a brigade Commander leveraging commercial capabilities such as 5G pleo to access Enterprise Cloud capabilities such as 365 or the inscom cloud Initiative for Intel or even other things that we brought in that allows them to do completely voice over IP on whatever device they happen to be holding in their hand imagine this layered unified Network under the OverWatch of our cyber being secured so that it works and then to top it off imagine a call for fire being processed from a Ford Observer based off of Intel they Reed through that layered unified Network and a shot being fired within three minutes a live round being fired within three minutes actually round imagine that world that was Saturday at the Joint Readiness Training Center that was in a contested and congested environment and it was a part of the unified Network it was a part of C2 fix and it was a unit in the dirt against a thinking adversary and it was working Not only was it working General Ray and I went over and we talked to the S6 shop Jeff what were they doing they were in well they were at Fort Johnson in August I'm not going to say they were enjoying what they were doing but the reality of it was is you had a bunch of signalers who were monitoring the network not fighting the network and that was Saturday now was it perfect absolutely not there are definitely things that we need to work work or is it moving in the right direction absolutely you know so over four years ago five tetan Nets ago we stood up here and we said we want to get after this thing of a unified Network and at the time General Barrett and I were articulating that it wasn't a thing it would never be a thing it was a framework that would just get the Army operating in a common Direction and I think you heard from Mr garga this morning that there is this Synergy between our cyber the six the CIO our great Asault teammates to drive on a common Direction but what I would tell you is it is ending up as a thing not a PO an operational capability that commanders are fighting you know it was interesting to me I was talking to the sart major of the second of the 101st Brigade and he goes you know sir I actually have to think when I come on site to do a site Recon where are we going to put the antenna fields and how do we remote them away so we lower our signature how do we displace our talk so much to the point that we had trouble finding it and even and we were on site with it that small that mobile that agile but you're listening to how that SAR major was describing the operational capabilities and it was all effects based it was not this is the network it was this is the operational capability I am using to prosecute a fight and so I get asked sometimes what is the unified Network hopefully that was just a little bit of a description of what it is and the promise of what bringing all three echelons together in a coherent operational architecture the power that it will bring to our army is we have to prosecute a fight now we've got a lot of work to do you heard the CIO this morning talk about what's next you heard asalt talking about the initiative they've got ongoing and and we are going to learn a ton I would sum it up as this at least as we really start looking at uh the unified Network it's all about the concept of Ops the concept of Ops the concept of Ops how are we going to operationalize it so it is just a matter of Norm that ass six when they have a problem knows who they need to call inside our cyber or NETCOM to get a problem resolved we've got to operationalize that and just drive it home and just gain the irreversible momentum because it's the way the world is heading it's the way the Army is heading and it is the only only way we're going to be able to operate at speed we've got to significantly relook our organizations inside our cyber NETCOM as we move towards this Central delivery of service model we've got a repurpose combat power if you if we can do 90% of our patching from a single location across the broader Army Enterprise why do we need a ton of cyber Defenders at the local level repurpose them have them do something crazy like focus on units in improving the quality of support that we we need and owe to our army at the division level it is a division architecture it is not a bunch of Brigade combat team architectures that we clued together and and call it a division architecture we have to reorganize our divisional Force structure we've got a signal fdu Force design update that is out there to reestablish division signal battalions we are working through that with the Cyber center of excellence and the broader Army but we've got to restructure so we Mass combat power and put the expertise where it needs to be and then last but not least training training training it goes hand inand with the conops we've got to continue to refine our training both inside the institution and then as you heard Mr garciaa talk about this morning for our civilian teammates as well because if it's truly a unified Network everybody's got to be trained to the same level but if you're not excited right now by that anecdote that I gave you to start this that I would have submitted to you that two years ago would have been Fantasy on a PowerPoint chart and then to see it in the dirt against a contesting a contested foe contesting F excuse me on Saturday and it's working and you have a brigade Commander Go his words not mine where we just can never go back that's when you know the Network's becoming a weapon system that's when you know it is some something that maneuver will use to prosecute our fights that's when you know we truly are the combat enabler that we need to be to support operations for our great Army so I leave you with those thoughts a little bit of what we need to work on still a little bit of where we're at today the uh I am going to assume a little bit of risk because I realize I've got another 40 minutes of standing here and I'm hoping that we all just don't look at each other so with that I will flip it over to youall and I will be glad to answer any questions you've got and if I can answer them there's a whole host of people here in the front row who can answer them for me fair enough over to you all thank you sir uh yes to remind the audience that the uh AV crew here will throw the uh Q&A question uh email address up on the screen please do send in your questions for General Morrison we have a couple to start you know the bad thing of these screens is I just saw myself my head is shiny as hell uh so sir first first question Jesse can I have my hat over to you all as we unify the network and Implement actions like C2 fix and nextg C2 to remove complexity from the Tactical Edge enhance mobility and make the Army more lethal how do you see the unified netops responsibilities changing and what tools and or capabilities are you looking for from industry and so that that is a great question I'm going to start it off because I think one of the other things that we need to work is culture you know the so so think about how we described this OverWatch coming from army cyber in the regional cyber Center the net Ops components that the division and then as it translated to the Brigade much more minimized than what it was in the past because they're not dragging all their own servers with them they're not doing all their own network management they're now relying on somebody else that they may or may not even know or see they definitely won't see them to provide those capabilities culture is one of the things that we are all collectively going to need to drive on because it's that layering of capabilities and being able to have it be very centralized and effective I'm not even going to say the word word efficient very effective but the ability to also decentralize it so first and formost we are looking for unified net Ops capabilities that bring a common picture and common capabilities whether you're at the very very far tactical Edge all the way back up to the enterprise we must build from The Edge back and the key to breaking down those cultural barriers is is going to be for Signal leaders at all Echelon military Andor civilian and cyber operators they have that same common visibility who's actioning it is all going to be about that conops conops conops that I was talking about you know our cyber has a lot more capacity to do defensive cyber operations than we will ever have in a divisional formation won't ever be close and so we should leverage that layering of capabilities to get after it the biggest thing that I would tell you that we really need to work on from industry because I do feel like for the base capabilities that we're layering in across the broader Enterprise we are moving in a good direction it all comes down to automation so we can gain speed we can see ourselves and quite frankly we can take some of that analytical load off of what our cyber Defenders are trying to do and so so if industry is going to focus anywhere it's really in two areas it's the one I just mentioned helping us automate so we can move at speed and identify problems at speed and then act and quite frankly not be completely reactive start getting into the proactive stance more and more and then two it's that integration you know we talk a lot about common operating pictures you know where a commander is able to see their battle space see friendly forces the enemy forces see what is happening in that battle space well if the network is truly going to be a weapon system and I believe everybody in this room believes it is then the folks that operate maintain secure and defend it and maneuver it need that same level of visibility but those would be the two big things that I would focus on Maria any thoughts okay it's going to be long thank you sir um could you expand on what you mean by reorganizing G6 how will this happen and is there a timeline uh so we are working through the timeline um and a lot of it let me put it into two buckets so at the Strategic and operational level I I would submit to you it's ongoing I'm sure when General Barrett gets up she'll talk about the global cyber Center center that is now going to be responsible for really overseeing that the global look of a network that is now delivered the theaters and that centrally delivery that Central delivery of uh Services model that the Army is rapidly implementing as that continues to mature and it'll vary a little bit by um capabilities that organiz that organiz reorganization is going to happen over the course of time you know I brought up the cyber security one I think that is a near-term target that if we really maximize the capabilities that we have inside the Army tenant we're going to be able to accelerate that at speed others may take a little bit longer inside the Tactical space uh the signal fdu is up at hqda it's in its final Staffing uh we will be working our way through that over the next 60 to 90 days uh and we anticipate getting the decision to move forward with that I'm going to caveat this as well but over the course of the next 90 days certainly before the end of this year that said units are not waiting you're going to start seeing provisional units start standing up through the course of the fall and then next year because commanders see the benefit of these pulled assets from a training and Readiness perspective that will allow them to rapidly task organized based off of the division's mission not trying to figure out what each of the B CS is doing with an asset and whether or not that fits the divisional scheme of maneuver and so it's going to be a Texas twep and we'll learn a lot as these provisional units start to stand up uh but that's really the model that the Army's been taken with transform and contact get some capabilities out into the field and the capabilities are not just Tech matter of fact I would submit to you the tech is mildly interesting the transform and contact to are new organizational design new capabilities new integrated formations and then we make smart puts and takes as we work our way through it if you look at the original design of the multi-domain task forces from uh geez Paul Stanton you in here when did we do those 16 17 so at the end of 16 and you look at where they're at today they are completely different organizations because we have learned we've adap Ed and then we put the requisite capabilities in those formations I hope that ansed the question thank you sir we know the Army is working hard to achieve the dod directive to implement zero trust what are your biggest challenges with doing that and how can industry help it I'm going to give it twofold one is internal to the Army um from my perspective and I'm I'm sure other senior leaders may have an idea too you know it's one of those things where we still have institutional uh challenges collapsing our organizational networks we have moved a long long way in that under the Fantastic leadership of General Barrett but we still have resistance um it's one of those things where resistance is feudal so everybody just sort of needs to give up because the army is heading in that direction because it is absolutely the right thing to do and you've heard me say it before there is no zero trust if we've got to do zero trust across multiple networks there's only zero trust if we're doing it on one network and so we have to overcome some last stringent of that institutional bias and those holdouts but I I will tell you I feel very comfortable that we're on the right Glide path from a industry perspective again it all goes back to that integration helping us integrate capabilities so we're not trying to Clues together a bunch of thep capabilities and then call it zero trust on the back end because if it's not integrated not just technically but operationally then what we're doing is essentially what we're trying to do with C2 fix where we don't want people looking at a whole bunch of different speed screens based off of what function they're trying to control you know we want them looking at one common screen that allows them to see exactly what is happening on the the network and again I will always bang on the automation component of this because the amount of data that is flying through our network is staggering we uh and I'm going to get this wrong so Denise mcf pop it out if I I don't get the number right but as we started looking at data tagging just inside the Army 365 environment when we were finally postured to do it we were at upwards of nine or 10 pedabytes of data that we had that was untagged and not the way that we wanted it to be now get that about right and so again automation has got to get us there so that we take some of this load off of the user right because to rely on the user or users in this case obviously to do that much data uh that's going to be a little tricky that was an understatement for effect thank you sir how do you see the integration of unified network operations within the zero trust strategy down to data tagging of information in a no trust Mo so so I think I sort of just answered that um if I didn't then I'll take another swing at it and you can tell me if I got it right or not you know so again unified net Ops needs to be not the layering of capabilities it needs to be the integration of capabilities something that we're working very hard with Mark kits and the c3t team since they're the ones that are going to own all that under the operational requirements that'll be established by our cyber the the the trick I think is going to be I already talked about the data tagging and and that component in the integration but how do we actually layer it on Echelon because there is always going to have to be net Ops and I'm inclusive of security and defense in that on Echelon the the reality of it is is that we're going to get into operational environments where in the near fight I can Envision a day of cyber effects being imposed on us by our adversaries and so that layering is going to be very very very important and and figuring that out and again we must start with an operational concept first and then drive that throughout the force is going to be absolutely critical at the edge we don't want them worried about data taging again I take you back to the automation piece of it it's got to be something that at the edge it just sort of happens for them and they don't even know that it's ongoing and it must be very lightweight you know the even though I would tell you we are putting unprecedented amounts of bandwidth into our Command Post whether it's a battalion a brigade or a division and and I I will tell you this story because it's great I was meeting with a young Brigade S6 four or five weeks ago and he he goes hey sir I've got a complaint and I okay Roger lay it on me I'm ready and he goes you're throttling my network and I go what do you mean wor thought in your network he goes well I've got legy Legacy crypto and I'm only able to get 100 Megs into the T rate now young major being aggressive so I smile at him and I go okay so what did you have like two weeks before that and he goes well I had two and it was like I'll tell you what come talk to me when you're having trouble getting to 20 and then we'll work our way through it right but but the reality of it is is no matter what bandwidth we throw into the Tactical Edge there will be a point in time where because the environment will be contested it will be congested that that's going to get driven down and we still need to account for it and we shouldn't get false positives even though it's promising today the reality of it is is our adversaries are smart and they will adapt as we adapt I hope that answered the question thank you sir sticking with the you know theme how do you see gen enabling predictive conceptive operations in support of Uno I I think it's going to be essential over time we are not there now though I will tell you as Walking the Floor I've seen some pretty promising capabilities that I think we all need to be on that adventure together you know I'm using the term automation but the reality of it is it's automation it drives you towards that level of AR icial intelligence that allows you to get predictive and proactive Vice where we are today which is far more reactive than we all want to be or because we don't have the ability to really see all the data the way that we want we leave something on The Cutting Room floor and so it's absolutely where all of us collectively need to head uh I will tell you that some of the things that our cyber's doing from their data standardization the way we are starting to layer these capabilities in because we're not waiting for the unified netops program to get up and running completely work has already been ongoing that there's already a level of Automation in artificial intelligence that's happened inside the our cyber Enterprise is it where it needs to be absolutely not where do we need industry's help we need your help driving us down that road thank you sir what's your guidance on the force on both maintaining current Legacy systems when being Forward Thinking about C2 fix yeah so I'm going to answer it a little bit differently um so it was very interesting is you as I was at at the 101st and it is a struggle inside the division and the 101st is just a microcosm of this uh challenge that I'm about to paint to you we don't have I would submit to you any brigades or excuse me divisions in our army uh that are completely interoperable with themselves you know the cap the capability set construct was absolutely the right thing to do 12 13 years ago because we were constantly rotating brigades into theater and it was the only way that we could really sustain that battle Rhythm but if you look at Large Scale ground combat it's all about divisional and core maneuver and all we want our Brigade combat teams doing is maneuvering and fighting we don't want them doing what they did during a coin operation where they were trying to do all this analytics on their own and control their own battle space again moving complexity up to the division level sort of interesting to me because everybody always starts it with move thech Tech complexity up no it's the task of actually Prosecuting a fight that need to move up a brigade combat team in a lisco fight will not have time to do heavy analytics to try and figure out what the enem is doing the division will the core will even higher will maybe even at the theater but not a brigade they're moving and so that's the part that we're going to have to work our way through is what is the Fielding construct our going in position is we're not going to do Brigade fieldings anymore uh Reggie Evans who's over on the corner and who is our new lead over in g357 for all things Network and Mission command is working through that Fielding plan and we plan to take it back to Army senior leaders by the end of September for their approval so that we can give direction to c3t of these are the Army's priorities but they're going to be Vision level fieldings I painted a very positive picture of what second of the hund first did the reality of it is the other portions of the division were living on Legacy things and trying to bring and cook those in and that is friction that we just plain as an army must take out of uh the approach so pure fleeting is going to be key so as we look at the 101st and we take a look at what capabilities we plan on putting into that formation smaller lighter far more agile more commercial capabilities such as pleo and 5G uh we are going to rapidly get the Legacy capabilities out at the same time there's no reason if we give a whole bunch of new IP based radios and that are softwar defined that they maintain any of their legacy radios they all need to leave as we replace their legacy wit with the smaller lighter kit that they were are using at jrtc right now it all needs to leave we've got to take that burden off of our operational commanders I I hope that answered the question and if I missed then just ask again please thank you sir with a unified Network what's your plan to improve response times for trouble tickets when it comes to things like firewall modifications that are controlled at an Enterprise level yeah so that is a great question and you know we had all the signal and cyber uh CSL leaders in yesterday and my my parting challenge to everybody uh at the end of it was conops conops conops be very very comfortable with change because everything I just described to you if it's the same capability the Army's Fielding in five years this entire room to include me failed right the days of Fielding the entire Army a capability are gone name an it anything in the world that tries to do that right so be very very comfortable with change and then be the hog that Slaughters ourselves and forces it the uh so my my reason for saying all that is that we've got to get comfortable with this layered conops that you're not going to control everything but I'm not going to sit here and say that there's not things inside our cyber and NETCOM that need to change all right for this jrtc rotation peas in a pod the coordination was thick as thieves and everybody was working their way through it and everybody knew who to call when there was a problem back up a week on the 18th Airborne core Warf fighter people fighting with the local network Enterprise Center keeping all problems local when quite frankly if we had that same operation Concept in place probably would have solved problems a heck of a lot earlier and quicker and so that conops is going to be absolutely essential and yeah we're all going to need the change you know General Barrett and I were talking about it yesterday supporting tactical level operations but there's only one way to do this if we're going to reduce complexity at the edge there's not a service provider out there that you know Central izes things along the lines of which we're trying to to give somebody their you pick a version of a phone where it's very simple for them to use that doesn't have that layered conops in place very simple analogy we've got to get there and this focusing down but in is going to be very important so we talked a little bit about capabilities um in the shifting of them as we move to the central delivery of service model the Army is not looking for for efficiencies when it comes to Personnel we want to redistribute them to get after those core tasks that we probably should have been doing all along making sure we've got the right capacity on Echelon so that inside the regional cyber Center instead of it being a very a relatively small tactical shop focus on tactical units that are in the field environment it's going to need to be more robust it's going to take us a little time to get there but that is the Journey that we're on and so again it ties all back to the conops because that drives our organizational design that drives the capabilities we put at Echelon and it drives our ability to actually Crush cultures that stand in our way how is the Army senior leadership thinking about industry as a strategic enabler and partner in an era of strategic conflict and in near peer competition oh that that that's a great question and um I will tell you uh I'll offer a couple different thoughts so from what this community does and when I say this community I'm talking about industry military and all the civilian teammates that are in here you should be pinching yourself for the Army senior leaders that we have in place right now uh you know General George didn't come taught to me Mr Garcia or Mr bang when he said hey I'm going to start calling the network the number one mization priority for the Army just started doing it you know the the the unbelievable work that we've done as an army attacking institutional biases and processes that slowed us down well quite frankly the under Secretary of the army has been a huge dri in that the reason that we now as a broader Community can now control control requirements prioritize requirements and then align resources to them right which is you know whoever controls resources controls Behavior controls output it's because our under secretary and our vice if he's not the best signaler in the Army he's the second best signaler in the Army I mean he is just all in on what it is that we're trying to do and so I say all that because it is unique how Army senior leaders have aligned to drive this and quite frankly to enable us to get a lot of maneuver going the reason Mr Garcia can stand up and say he's changing all these policies is because Army senior leaders are helping the reason Mr Bank can stand up saying here's all the different things we're changing from the actual procurement portion of uh our uh acquisition piece it's because we got Army senior leaders that are it I would bet that any of those senior leaders that I just AR just mentioned to you if they were standing here they would sit there and say this simple thing we will never be able to develop it capabilities like industry can you've got to help us just take that put the military wrapper around it that we need to so we can get the power of American Ingenuity in our industry in place for our army and our nation I truly believe that I'd be pretty close in that and I defer to my two wingmen if the uh and so that is where we need your help you know there is a sense of urgency to get moving and all you have to do is look at the news I mean it is a crazy Wicked complex world right now and all of us all of us need to play a key part in making sure that our nation remain strong that would be my personal ask of all of our teammates in this room thank you sir next question with the increasing emphasis on joint and Coalition operations how does the army plan to integrate its cyber capabilities with those of other services and Allied Nations to ensure a unified defense I'm probably going to defer that one to General Barrett tomorrow um I but I'll I'll flip it on its head a little bit and I'll talk about it from a a network perspective at the Joint level so I'll be very candid with everybody even though um I know there are several things that we need to work across the entirety of the do Mill PF when it comes to implementing the unified network uh I would say that the institutional biases inertia and quite frankly non-functioning institutional challenges that we had have mostly been busted through again I take you back to you know between the CIO and and myself we're able to work our way through the prioritization with our cyber as our advisor the priorization of operational requirements the validation of operational requirements quite frankly when it comes to the network then the prioritization and then the subsequent resourcing that's pretty powerful so I would submit to you that we are on a good Glide path and I don't see us going back I think we are definitely trending in the right direction we had to fix ourselves first you know it that'll be plain text in our joint interactions at the from a network and and all that component of it mainly with the Air Force and the Navy we're a little informational just to make sure we didn't get too desync from each other because we all generally had the same end state where we've really driven on partnering is with uh General Skinner and D Joint Force Headquarters doden because we both have an envisionment especially on Mission networks that he's going to provide that joint umbrella that we will then plug into so that it is absolutely seamless across the entirety of The Joint Force our third priority really was our allies and partners we focused on those uh partner networks that we knew we had to defend that were conducting operations and our cyber's done a great job starting to provide that cssp uh cyber security um umbrella over those networks as a Department of Defense we've got to start making some very very informed decisions on where we're going to take the mission partner environment and we can't be everything to everybody we are going to have to start picking targets and then building it out in a unified fashion based off of zero trust principles and then figure out who is the right operator for because I would submit to you right now that the department does not have that right and so we've got to get that part sorted out little twist on that Maria over to you to the other one if you'd like to answer it or wait till tomorrow thank you sir how is the Army trying to bridge the Enterprise capabilities to the Tactical Edge in the unified Network well I don't think we're trying I I think we're crushing those boundaries you know I wasn't making up what I sat there and said happened on Saturday and I I would tell you that uh as we integrate more and more commercial capabilities with military capabilities at the Tactical Edge and just bring that together in a tight wrapper and tie that back into the Strategic and operational level it's only going to accelerate on us you know the people using sipper teams in the woods at jrtc was like I'm going to use a thing from Mr garciaa was a real thing the Brigade Commander walking around with a phone connected to a local myi Puck that that was connected to wireless that was connected to Star shield and he's doing the same stuff that he was doing in his office the day before was a real thing the ability to start moving around the world and just plugging your computer in is a real thing so I I don't think we're trying I think we are blowing through it like it's going out style I think one point that we don't talk about enough is this integration of this operational architecture now I'm going to use my terms when I say operational architecture because I know architecture can become a four-letter word but when you look at C2 fix and the work that has been ongoing with c3t every step of the way there's been the signalers and the Cyber Defenders who were going to have to operate that when there's not a FSR or a c3t teammate in site where were in that room doing the puts and takes on what that operational design needed to be because they were the ones that were going to live with it on the back end and the teamw that came from c3t was second to none that is the same stuff that is happening at the Strategic and operational levels with our cyber and NETCOM and our supported commands as we build out things like the Army 365 tenant so bringing a coherent operational architecture I acknowledge it's technical together but driven so that it is threaten formed and integrated soup the nuts meaning strategic down to Tactical that's the game and so again I don't think we're trying I think we're way past trying I think we're starting to blow the door off the hinges and I only see it accelerating from this point out thank you sir we have time for one more question and we have so many questions from the audience that we're not going to have uh time to get to but uh the final question are you saying that just to be nice to me or sir we have a lot of questions uh the final question congratulations on the recent success of the eam launch and the onboarding of those key Army systems how is the process of integrating tactical IAM with the broader eam system coming along especially in terms of supporting the Army's zero trust initiatives across both Enterprise and tactical environments and so that's a great question so I will tell you that we are at the start of the journey um we have now got it to where what we're doing with the IAM is now going to be layered with what we're doing with IAM at the Tactical level um I will tell you that I think all of us are starting to have a growing sense that saying IAM is almost a misnomer at this point that we need to start doing IC and M and talking about the capabilities from that perspective Ive but I take you back to the institutional inertia um and the ability to blow through that institutional inertia because we're starting to establish as an army uh those clear roles and responsibilities across the broader qda staff and owering it down to um the mission Partners below as such as Army cyber if we had left things to their own devices tactical IAM was years away from even starting I mean years away I I think it was 27 Mark you can correct me if I was wrong but because of the ability to sit there and do that level of prioritization to be able to work with our teammates over an as salt we're now able to look at the Ia and M in its totality all at the same time now as I get ready to get off the stage here in January I'm leaving it to this great team to to figure the rest of that stuff out but but the the reality of it is is we now have an opportunity to look at identity credentialing access and management in its totality because we're able to get the burocracy aligned and so I think we're in a really really good space we've got all those capabilities now can um Consolidated inside e excuse me c3t sorry about that Mark the uh because asold has done a tremendous job consolidating the delivery of all Network capabilities under Mark kits in c3t that is why he will soon have a hairline like mine but but again it's you know lasting change is institutional change is what I would submit to you and by getting the institution the institutional change that we've long long worked I a lot of folks have been banging on this for years that day is now arriving and it is going to be absolutely powerful for our army moving forward I hope that answered the question that was our final question hey so can I just yeah so just the uh so um probably last techet standing up here the uh I just want to leave you guys with two thoughts if the folks in this room can't get what we just talked about done you know and seal the deal and continue to drive this change I don't know who can it is absolutely amazing what everybody in this room brings to it what whether you're an industry partner a soldier one of our civilians or a contractor that's in support of our great Army in The Joint Force so my hats off to everybody in this room for everything that you've done that took a simple framework four years ago four and a half years ago and is now building off Mr garciaa slang made it a real thing and it's happened because everybody in here's been rowing so I can't tell you how much I appreciate everybody's leadership I really look forward to seeing what this great team of teams accomplishes over the next several years because as I said a few minutes ago I see it doing nothing but accelerating beyond our wildest dreams and it's because of each and every one of you thank you please welcome Eric gladman back to the stage okay sir it's been an absolute honor to have you here this afternoon and to be here all these years 10 years so it's a privilege and on behalf of afia we'd like to present a special donation to you to the signal and cyber Historical Museum we'll make that on your behalf and we really appreciate your mentorship and guidance sir thank you very much we have another acquisition session coming up this momentarily here in about 15 minutes we also have a lot planned for you this afternoon in our other meeting spaces so please help us stay on schedule by quickly exiting and we are going to head into another session here otherwise sit tight as we prepare the stage for the next presentation thank you very much e