We are closing 430K redundant AKO email accounts for existing DoD Enterprise Email (EE) users. These users are a subset of the total DoD EE users who have AKO accounts; the accounts to be closed do not include communities like deployed Soldiers, families, NG, and USAR. AKO email addresses are still valid, and email addressed to AKO accounts will continue to be automatically forwarded to DoD EE accounts.

The Army must be able to deploy anywhere in the world, with little or no notice, into an austere environment, and quickly become a joint task force. By building out the Joint Information Environment [JIE], we can take a team as small as a five-man squad-up to a division in a corps-and punch them out anywhere in the world and have them immediately connected to the network and their data once they land.

(Oct. 15, 2012) ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md.-- -- The U.S. Armyannounced that the first fielding of Capability Set 13 has begun new equipment training with two brigade combat teams of the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y., and Fort Polk, La. Capability Set 13, is the first fully-integrated package of radios, satellite systems, software applications, smartphone-like devices and other network components that provide an integrated connectivity from the static tactical operations center to the commander on-the-move to the dismounted Soldier.

Link to information sheets on the Enterprise Email, Collaboration Services, Data Center Consolidation, Common Operating Environment, Directory Services and Authentication Consolidation.

LTG Susan Lawrence, US Army Chief Information Officer/G-6, and CIO/G-6 SGM Kevin McCrary lead CIO/G-6 staff in a cake cutting ceremony 3 August to celebrate the grand opening of the new CIO/G-6 headquarters in Building 220 - on Fort Belvoir. The staff led the organization's BRAC move and were invited to participate in the cake cutting to celebrate their hard work. The CIO/G-6 moved 314 people and 136,000 lbs of material to Fort Belvoir. See photos