Image via WikipediaAs I was heading to DoDIIS 2001 in Detroit, I wondered what I might blog about after the show. This is my third blog in as many years about attending DoDIIS and I did not want to rehash what I had written in the past.I did not imagine that last Sunday night while having a beverage with my fellow conference attendees we would hear on the news that Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, was dead. As I looked around the bar I saw people with tears in their eyes, shouting “hooah,” standing in silence, hugging and fist bumping. This historic event was a very personal moment of closure for all of us.
I will never forget that I was in Kansas City on Sept. 11, 2001, eating breakfast in a hotel restaurant with my coworkers watching TV and to my complete abject horror, watched the events play out showing the senseless deaths of many people—some of whom I knew personally. Since that terrible day I have met many more individuals who have shared their stories of how this senseless event impacted them.
To all those people who gave the ultimate sacrifice in pursuit of justice, I humbly say, thank you.
As Sunday ended and Monday began with the DoDIIS kick-off keynote, the “normalcy” of this conference merged with the previous night’s event. For DIA, this particular conference was an opportunity to celebrate its 50th anniversary (the agency was formed in 1961) and my guess is DIA was happy with its “present.”
NJVC had a great showing at DoDIIS and the feedback of our demos—cloud, cyber, facility modernization and video telecommunications— was they were relevant and the participants were ready for them.
After attending DoDIIS, it is clear to me that NJVC and its partners have the solutions to help DIA and the DoDIIS community find and implement Grant Schneider’s DIA CIO and Director of DS top three challenges:
- Governance
- Leverage technology to lower the cost of information technology
- Better understand how to collaborate to achieve mission results
I am optimistic!
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