Sec. 804. Governance of Joint Information Environment
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The Secretary of Defense shall assign a senior military or civilian official to serve as the assistant to the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense and Coordinator of the Joint Information Environment of the Department (in this section referred to as the Coordinator ). In assigning an individual to serve as the assistant to the Chief Information Officer and as the Coordinator, the Secretary shall select from among individuals who have significant expertise in the following:
Information technology planning and program management. Command and control at the Joint Force level. The United States Cyber Command’s concept of operations for operating and defending information systems and networks. The Chief Information Officer shall assign the Coordinator with lead responsibility for the following: Balancing priorities and risks between efficient network acquisition and operation, effective execution of military missions through a network, and effective network defense.
Defining the elements and aspects of the current information architecture in the Department of Defense that are critical for the transition to the desired Joint Information Environment end state. Developing the desired architecture for the Joint Information Environment to an appropriate level of detail. Developing and updating an integrated master schedule for migrating to the Joint Information Environment, with milestones and critical dependencies. In conjunction with the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, developing and updating cost estimates and performance measures for the Joint Information Environment.
Tracking compliance with, and deviations from, objectives, schedule, and costs of the Joint Information Environment. Identifying gaps in plans and budgets of components of the Department of Defense that relate to the Joint Information Environment and identifying requirements for development and procurement to address those gaps. Developing and verifying achievement of open systems architectures for major warfighting missions of the Department similar to the Defense Intelligence Information Environment architecture developed under the auspices of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for the intelligence mission of the Department.
The Coordinator shall establish a team of experts to provide advice and assistance to the Coordinator in carrying out the responsibilities of the Coordinator. The Chief Information Officer, the commanders of the combatant commands, and the heads of the cyber components of the military departments shall assist the Coordinator by making available to the Coordinator experts who have operational experience in or with the following: The office of the Chief Information Officer of the Department or an office of a chief information officer of a military department.
Joint planning and operations at a combatant command. The United States Cyber Command or a cyber component of a military department. Technical aspects of information technology acquisition and cloud computing. The Executive Committee of the Joint Information Environment shall include the Director for Operations (commonly referred to as the J3 ) of the Joint Staff and the Director for Operations of the United States Cyber Command. The Executive Committee of the Joint Information Environment shall ensure that working groups within the Executive Committee include representatives from the operational communities responsible for executing military missions.
The head of each military department and defense agency shall assign an official to support the Coordinator and to align component plans and budgets with the objectives and schedules of the Joint Information Environment. Not later than June 1, 2015, the Chief Information Officer shall select a standard language for representing and communicating cyber event and threat data that is machine-readable for the Joint Information Environment from among open source candidates. As part of the Department's cloud computing migration strategy under the Joint Information Environment, the Chief Information Officer of the Department shall identify and prioritize the applications in use in the Department that should be considered for migration to a cloud computing environment and determine the following:
Whether each of the applications used by the Department can be readily ported to a cloud computing environment. If an application used by the Department cannot be readily ported to a cloud computing environment, the cost and time required to enable, either by modification or replacement, the operation of the application in a cloud computing environment. Whether it would be cost-effective to enable, either by modification or replacement, the operation of an application described in subparagraph
(B)in a cloud computing environment. A list of applications used by the Department that should be enabled, either by modification or replacement, to operate in a cloud computing environment, listed in the order of priority by which they should be enabled, and a schedule for such modification or replacement. The Chief Information Officer shall use the assessment conducted under paragraph
(1)to develop an estimate of the time-phased cloud computing workload of the Department for the purpose of— informing the Department’s cloud computing strategy under the Joint Information Environment initiative; and to assist commercial cloud computing providers to develop business proposals for the Department.