![]() ![]() ![]() I believe it, I want to see it, and will continue to use every bit of influence and leverage that I have to see it to fruition but, my faith is diminishing. I say this as a founding member of an Air Force innovation unit. The attitude and directive of "accelerate change or lose" is fantastic but, there are very few people in the Air Force with the agency to facilitate the change that is truly needed. We are losing Reservists in droves right now because of how difficult it has become simply to serve, which is all that most of us want to continue to do-all of which rests on the backbone of dreadful, ill-conceived, and poorly timed technology. Every time a new application is rolled out, I can predict exactly how poorly it will be integrated and see how little forethought was given to its development. It is mind-boggling how low a bar is cause for celebration in the Air Force. I'm an IMA whose civilian job is in high tech. He’ll also be a huge advocate and coach for the types of agile processes that will allow our operators to more quickly integrate my guidance and the UX data collected by Colt WhittallĤ) Rob Wallace / MS is working with us re why Teams is good and Outlook is ? for many on the same network. Heather Blackwell and Josh Rockhill are helping us work this.ģ) I have tasked Jay Bonci to work common road map across the community so everyone knows where we are headed and how to link in. Everything is harder than it needs to be due to our legacy debt. ![]() We are working with McAfee and Tanium to improve UX and intend to streamline into one endpoint solution that meets our security, operations, and UX needs. Anyone buying a standard laptop today from the catalog will be very happy with their performance.Ģ) I tasked ACC in May to streamline our endpoint solution. I’ll share a few things we’re doing:ġ) We’ve advised MAJCOMs to prioritize refresh of laptops to meet the new standard. ![]() It’s the foundation of our competitive advantage and also ensures every single person can maximize their time on mission. #technology #future #innovation #government #management it's not a money problem, it's a priority problem. and yet somehow fundamental IT funding is still an afterthought. Ultimately, we can't solve problems with the same tools that made them. I timed 1 hour and 20 minutes from logging in to Outlook opening today. We're the richest and most well funded military in the world. Making computers so useless that nobody can hack them is not a strategy (yet they hack them anyway). Why am I using Internet Explorer? Fix our computers. What happened to the cloud? Fix our computers. Want to recruit the generation of the future? Fix our computers. We've been doing more with less for too long. My computer updated and restarted 10 times today. Tanium battling McAfee for scans all day takes up 40% of the processes inside the machine. I turned on my computer and it sat at 100% CPU usage. my computer froze and needed to be restarted. I wrote an email the other day that took over an hour to send. Would you ever buy a $100 dollar computer? Fix our computers.Īre you a senior leader visiting a unit? Ask if their computers work. I Googled how much the computer under my desk costs in the real-world. Fix our computers.Īre you reading inputs from any of the various idea/innovation programs? Fix our computers. Want innovation? You lost literally HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of employee hours last year because computers don't work. Fix our computers.īefore spending another dollar on a Request for Proposals from industry asking for the same thing you asked for last year, fix our computers. Yesterday, I spent an hour waiting just to log-on. You tell us to Accelerate change or lose, then fix our computers.īefore buying another plane, tank, or ship, fix our computers. Today, I am writing an open letter echoing some recent servicemember frustrations regarding computers in the Department of Defense. ![]()
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