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Enhancing Military Operations Through Information Technologies Asia Pacific Defence Forum 4 November 2010

Enhancing Military Operations Through Information Technologies Asia Pacific Defence Forum 4 November 2010. Brian Geehan Major General, U.S. Army (Retired) General Manager US Public Sector, DoD Services, Microsoft Corporation. The New World of Warfighting. Geospatial Systems Mobility

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Enhancing Military Operations Through Information Technologies Asia Pacific Defence Forum 4 November 2010

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  1. Enhancing Military Operations Through Information TechnologiesAsia Pacific DefenceForum4 November 2010 Brian Geehan Major General, U.S. Army (Retired) General Manager US Public Sector, DoD Services, Microsoft Corporation
  2. The New World of Warfighting Geospatial Systems Mobility Portals Presence & Instant Messaging Cloud & Hosted Solutions Interoperable Coalition Opns Multinational & NGOs Cyber Security Effective and Efficient
  3. Microsoft Services Microsoft Services, is the front-line for Microsoft Corporation in architecting, designing and deploying advanced solutions with Microsoft technologies to Defense organizations worldwide. MCS Premier MCS / Premier Canada 349 WE 1939 CEE 886 U.K. 919 Deployment& Adoption GCR 770 IT Architecture & Planning Support & Health U.S. 6588 France 519 Germany 870 13 areas and 82 countries 17,341 employees 44 languages 4,500 engineers 715 million customer touch points per year Japan 789 MEA 547 Latam 516 India 1891 APAC 758
  4. DoD Services Offerings Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) Premier MCS / Premier Deployment& Adoption IT Architecture & Planning Support & Health
  5. Microsoft Services Hostile Zone Deployments Deploying Microsoft Services for the last 4 years Persistent presence in Iraq (MCS & Premier) 34 deployments in support of the Army missions 28 deployments to Iraq (30 days to 6+ months) 6 deployments to Afghanistan (18 days to 6+ months) Consulting focus on Business Intelligence (BI) and Knowledge Management (KM) (USF-Iraq KMO) Premier focus on O&M of C4 systems (RAPs/Healthchecks for Warfighters) Current Focus on Battle Command solutions and capabilities USF-I KMO work resulted in a new SharePoint solution, commander’s dashboards, and custom reporting capabilities and report metrics Automated reporting and real-time dashboard views for common items (SIGACTs, IED actions & personnel stats) Workflows and automation for tracking and reporting (automating manual processes from FOB to Corps) AD, Exchange and SharePoint Risk Assessments delivered at Baghdad and remote FOBs.
  6. Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT)
  7. Air Force Highlight –Unified Communications - OCS Office Communications Server (OCS) Collaboration/unified communications platform for USAF Most AF Major Commands deployed OCS to a portion of their commands AF total deployment ~350K Easy desktop and SharePoint integration Results/Value Added Full integration with SharePoint and Office facilitates collaboration Moves AF closer to Unified Communications and VOIP Unified Communications provides huge benefits integrating desktop with voice technology…cost savings Enables telework capability Microsoft AF Services Team Support Architected and helped implement most MAJCOM deployments Consistent, standard architecture to allow federation across commands Premier engineers perform network, SharePoint and Exchange health checks to optimize performance
  8. U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
  9. US ARMY FORSCOM - “Art of the Possible”
  10. USMC – 3rd MEF
  11. Defense Information Systems Agency – Enterprise E-Mail
  12. Microsoft’s Unified Communications Summary DoD Services – Global Impact Bridging the Gap Between Home Grown vs. Off-the-Shelf SW Department Solutions vs. Federated Solutions Commercial Support to the Deployed Warfighter DoD and the Cloud: Private, Public or Hybrid -- TBD Leveraging Commercial R&D “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” Vince Lombardi

  13. Questions?

    Brian Geehan bgeehan@microsoft.com
  14. US Army Combat Readiness / Safety Center Datacenter consolidation Enables USACR/SC to offer more capability at a reduced cost Solution built on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Key benefits include: Reduce physical servers by 50% (120  60) High-availability, lower cost of ownership Agile and efficient mission support Deployed 27 virtual servers in one afternoon All servers fully patched and STIG’d Mature development environment 3 zones: Development  Test  Production
  15. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)
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