US Fleet Cyber Command Wins Excellence Award for IT Accomplishments

The U.S. Fleet Cyber Command (FCC) Information Technology Spend Governance Team was announced as a winner of the 2013 Department of the Navy (DON) Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) Excellence Award Jan. 31.

The annual DON IM/IT Excellence Awards recognize IM/IT teams, projects, and individuals that have helped to transform the Navy and Marine Corps through information technology.

The award recognizes the FCC team’s dedicated work in creating new processes and ongoing analysis that facilitated the approval of over 800 IT investment requirements for Navy funded, Navy and Marine Corps Intranet/Continuity of Service Contract (NMCI/CoSC), and nationally funded IT procurement requests.

 “Our 19 member team can be proud of their accomplishments over the past year that benefit not only the command, but the Navy as a whole by creating efficiencies that maximize resources – an ever more critical necessity in this challenging fiscal climate,” said Kevin Cooley, FCC’s chief information officer and executive director.

The DON CIO award citation reads:

The efforts of the US Fleet Cyber Command IT Spend Governance Team measurably improved mission effectiveness and positively affected information sharing and information management. Through innovative use of IM/IT, the team met Navy requirements without duplicating existing programming and financial management controls at FCC headquarters and globally dispersed subordinate commands. The team’s forceful advocacy increased user capability, reduced decision cycle timelines Navy-wide and improved FCC mission effectiveness. In just 10 months, the team created processes from scratch and conducted intensive analysis directly affecting the approval of over 800 IT investment requirements for Navy funded, NMCI/CoSC and nationally funded IT procurement requests. The value of these investments exceeded $100M and encompassed telecommunication services, Programs of Record support, contract support services, software and hardware. The team’s diligence and innovation resulted in significant achievements in advancing the DON, OPNAV, and FCC vision for managing this knowledge and information, thus enabling effectiveness at the Echelon II and Echelon I levels. Collaboration, communication, and execution of IT expenditures throughout the FCC HQ and domain now follow documented, repeatable processes that have resulted in better decision-making and increased mission effectiveness, visibility, and oversight for all FCC IT Investments across all classification enclaves.

 “We’re proud of the team’s hard work that has enabled FCC leadership to make decisions during the past year to avoid duplicate projects, ensure consistency throughout the domain, and identify new avenues to pursue IT efficiencies,” said team leader and member Neal Miller, FCC Deputy Chief Information Officer for Mission Assurance.

Importantly, these efficiencies aid FCC in fulfilling its goal of providing Navy and Joint commanders with an operational advantage by assuring access to cyberspace and confident command and control, preventing strategic surprise in cyberspace, and delivering decisive cyber effects.

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Naval Today Staff, February 4, 2013; Image: US Navy