“We’re going to leverage what DISA already has in place, and that architecture has already been built and largely delivered.” “There’s still a suite of over 600 Army systems that use AKO for single sign-on, and the guidance from the CIO is to break that out from the portal capability to it’s a standalone service that provides equivalent or better identity and access management ,” Neff told my colleague Jason Miller at an AFCEA small business event Friday. Tom Neff, the project director for enterprise services in the Army’s program executive office for enterprise information systems, said officials are mapping out a strategy that would continue to use AKO as a place where soldiers can dump their files, access various online training materials and sign onto various Army websites that aren’t visible to the public.įederal News Network's Cloud Exchange 2023: Discover how agencies across the government use cloud to reimagine government services - from the enterprise to the edge in this 3 day event. That’s after officials shut down its email and collaboration services last year following the move to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Enterprise Email and Defense Online Portal Service. The Army has settled on a long-term vision that will keep at least some key AKO functions alive for the foreseeable future. That’s after officials shut down its email and collaboration services last year following the move to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Enterprise. Northrop Grumman is a $30 billion global defense and technology company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding to government and commercial customers worldwide.Rumors of the death of Army Knowledge Online - the web portal soldiers and Army civilians have used for everything from training to email since the 1990s - were evidently premature. SAIC, San Diego EDS, Plano, Texas ePlus, Inc. Dell, Round Rock, Texas EMC2, Hopkinton, Mass. AT&T, San Antonio, Texas CISCO Systems, Inc., San Jose, Calif.
Northrop Grumman's DKO teammates include Cherry Road Technologies, Parsippany, N.J. "DKO affirms Northrop Grumman's position as the leading provider of enterprise portal solutions across Defense Department, intelligence and civilian agency domains." "Defense Knowledge Online represents Northrop Grumman's commitment to providing critical information systems and secure solutions to support our nation's defense and security," said Tom Shelman, president of Northrop Grumman IT's Defense group.
"Defense Knowledge Online is a marquee example of adopting and adapting a best practice across the Defense Department, resulting in expanded capabilities, reduced total cost of ownership and increased efficiencies." "We will expand on the successes of the Army Knowledge Online program by enabling Defense Knowledge Online capabilities across the joint community," said Catherine Kuenzel, vice president of Enterprise Infrastructure Services and Solutions for Northrop Grumman IT. DKO will provide relevant information and applications to the warfighter and other government users through a secure service-oriented framework to help them perform missions more effectively. In partnership with the U.S Department of Defense DKO program office, Northrop Grumman's Information Technology (IT) sector is leading the evolution to a service-oriented architecture enabling the Defense Department to leverage common critical applications and infrastructure services to meet mission and operational requirements for forces worldwide.
Effective today, the seamless transition was completed between the legacy AKO contractor, Cherry Road Technologies, and Northrop Grumman. 1, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) - Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has assumed duties of the Lead Service Integrator for Army Knowledge Online (AKO)/Defense Knowledge Online (DKO) system engineering, operations, and maintenance tasks.
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