As I wrote in last year's Martin Luther King, Jr.’s holiday message, and worth repeating, is we will mark his birthday by commemorating his life and belief in justice, universal equality and a color-blind society. Dr. King, through faith, perseverance, and reason, changed the course of our Nation forever. He lived by the measure "What are you doing for others?" -- an ideal that resonates with our Army values and Warrior Ethos.

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Jan. 30, 2013) -- Approximately 500,000 Army AKO webmail users are scheduled to migrate to DOD Enterprise Email starting in February 2013. The group currently uses AKO webmail for their primary Army email, and they are one of the last large Army groups to migrate to DOD Enterprise Email, or DEE.

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.

WARREN, Mich. (Jan. 7, 2013) -- The U.S. Army, through the System of Systems Integration Directorate, announced that it is seeking interested industry and government sources with mature solutions to enhance existing network systems capabilities to participate in the Network Integration Evaluation 14.1 event, scheduled to take place in October/November 2013 at Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands Missile Range, N.M.

Army CIO/G-6 will publish five IT Reference Architectures (RA) as part of Army IT management reform. The Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) RA published in Nov. 2012 will be followed in 2013 by RAs for Thin/Zero Client Computing; Top Level Security; Network Operations (NetOps) and Unified Capabilities.