On DoD: Pentagon’s JIE moves from planning to implementation

More than two years after the planning effort began, DoD's push to converge thousands of disparate IT enclaves into a more coherent structure is beginning to be...

In this edition of On DoD, Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu talks with two of the top Pentagon officials who are leading the push toward the Joint Information Environment:

Dave DeVries is DoD’s deputy chief information officer for information enterprise, and Air Force Brig. Gen. Brian Dravis is the director of the Joint Technical Synchronization Office, housed at the Defense Information Systems Agency.

Devries begins the conversation with a brief overview of the concepts behind JIE.

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