Raj Iyer, former chief information officer of the U.S. Army, was recently appointed as head of global public sector at workflow automation software provider ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW). He brings to the newly created position over three decades of technology and business transformation experience in government and private sectors and will help accelerate...
Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo said the service plans to spend approximately $290 million on cloud migration efforts over the next few months as it works to become a digital-first organization, Defense News reported Thursday. Camarillo said “2023 is very much, in my mind, a year of acceleration” when it comes to cloud adoption efforts and...
The U.S. Army plans to launch a competition for a potential $1 billion multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract as part of a push to speed up the migration of existing systems to the cloud, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. Raj Iyer, the Army’s chief information officer and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said the servi...
In the U.S. Army’s modernization journey, the cloud is playing an increasingly important role. Army CIO Raj Iyer, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said that in the future fight, data will be the Army’s ammunition, and the cloud will serve as the next warfighting platform. Although the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability pr...
Army CIO Raj Iyer, a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, opened Wednesday’s Second Annual Army IT and Digital Transformation Forum, with an engaging and informative keynote address covering the challenges in talent recruitment and the immediate need for digital transformation efforts to drive the Army toward its 2030 modernization and strategic objec...
As the U.S Army continues to invest in the most innovative digital technologies to adapt to the current era of modernization, the service branch has released a new Digital Transformation Strategy to build a bridge from today to the data and technology-centric Army of the future. Raj Iyer, chief information officer of the U.S. Army and a...
Raj Iyer, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, said the service intends to spend $1.4 billion by fiscal year 2023 on the modernization of its enterprise resource planning systems used to manage its financial, logistics, human resources and training activities, Breaking Defense reported Friday. He told reporters during a briefing Thursday the ...
As the U.S. Army places heavy emphasis on modernization, service leaders are looking to harness more industry innovations that can help the branch create robust information and data sharing capabilities at a quicker speed. Matt Benigni, chief data officer for the Army Futures Command, said during a recent Dcode webinar that he views digital transfor...
As the U.S. Army forges ahead with its transformational modernization efforts, the service is focusing on data and leveraging it as a center of gravity for a host of critical capabilities. According to the Army Digital Transformation Strategy, published in October 2021, “The Army must adapt a data-driven mindset and embrace digital transforma...
Raj Iyer, chief information officer of the U.S. Army, was officially presented his 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), during the Potomac Officers Club’s 3rd Annual CIO Summit where Iyer was featured as an expert panelist. Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented the second consecutive Wash...
