By Kevin L. Jackson, Vice President at Dataline

During this week’s Federal Executive Forum taping, Navy CIO Robert Carey discussed his views on cloud computing.

Stating that the NGEN and CANES (Navy Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services) programs will both leverage cloud computing, he also describes a future of “grey clouds” on each ship.

Joining him on the program was:

• Mike Krieger- Army Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary of the Army


• Henry Sienkiewcz- Technical Program Director, Computer Services, Defense Information Systems Agency

The panel discussed the progress of Cloud Computing in the Federal Government, best practices including the DISA RACE program, challenges still ahead, lessons learned, and the vision for the future.

The complete show will be webcast on November 10, 2009 at 2:00 pm.

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Kevin L. Jackson is currently a Vice President at Dataline, LLC. Prior to this position, he served in various senior management positions including VP, Federal Sy