Q&A: US Dept of Defense

23 February 2012

Q&A: US Dept of Defense

With an annual budget of $550 billion, the US Department of Defense is the largest government department in the world. It employs 700,000 civilians and around 2.5 million soldiers – more people than any other organisation on the planet.

Since its inception in 1949, the DoD has played a pioneering role in information technology. Its research arm, DARPA, invented the precursor to the Internet, ARPAnet, making its record for world-changing innovation pretty much unbeatable.

But even with these credentials, the DoD has not escaped one of the most crippling afflictions in enterprise IT – siloed legacy data... read more...

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