Navy's Top IT Priorities

Navy Department Chief Information Officer Robert Carey recently wrote a blog post highlighting his top 10 priorities for the department in 2010, and it's no surprise that workforce issues are front and center.

Carey outlined plans to improve cybersecurity and IT workforce skills, largely through new and improved training and boosting the knowledge of the network as a tool to perform work. He also touted improvements in cloud computing, noting that Navy is moving toward the Enterprise User concept, where any authorized Navy employee can access the Global Information Grid from any device, and moving towards a cybersecurity capability model to ensure that resources are placed where absolutely necessary.

Carey also outlined plans to invest more in Web 2.0 and collaboration platforms in order to help Navy employees make better decisions more quickly and efficiently. The CIO also plans to improve decision making and governance to make better decisions and maximize the value of IT budgets, and to boost initiatives related to enterprise mobility, privacy, identity management and critical infrastructure.

I'm sure the lists of IT priorities at other federal agencies are similar. Does your agency place such emphasis on the importance of investing in the IT workforce? How critical is doing so to accomplishing the overall IT mission?