The American military will pass to iPad and Android

The director of information technology of the U.S. Department of Defense Teri Takai intends to advance information technologies according to top trends in IT for acceleration of implementation of new technologies, in particular, cloud and mobile.

This approach the back-end of the Ministry of Defence, such as reduction of dependence on the custom systems, legacy technologies and the forthcoming consolidation for standardization can mean serious changes in the technology section.

At Takai behind shoulders solid experience. She spent 30 years to "Ford Motor Co" at strategic positions before she passed into public sector. Addressing audience from contractors of the government recently, she told: "We are not going to move ahead in a cloud environment by any methods if at the same time we do not pass to more standardized environment".

Taka CIO in the Ministry of Defence last year was appointed and exercises control over the IT budget almost in $33 billion at the general defense budget about $708 billion. Implementation of mobile technologies will be a key priority for Takai. Military rely on specially developed devices for ensuring communication for a long time. But in department there is a growing demand for use of civil mobile technologies, such as iPhone, iPad, smartphones for Android, Blackberry and other devices.

She considers that department is not in that status now to be engaged in improvement of technologies which are required for it, but development is necessary. "Fast involvement of new technologies is one of our priorities", - emphasized Takai.

IT transactions of the Ministry of Defence "very limited, on legacy systems", Deniece Peterson, the analyst of Input company told. The appeal of Takai to standardization is the directing purpose of the government, but "large-scale progress was limited", Peterson told and she expects that Takai will put bigger emphasis on this question.

In plans of the Ministry of Defence to integrate the 772 DPCs. The White House calls for it all relevant organizations, but Takai told that planning of it is in the initial stage, and she cannot tell – that she, as a result, will become the consolidation purpose.

As for an ubiquitous security concern, "types of threats and problems which we face grow in geometrical progression", told Takai. "Purposeful attacks on department of defense constantly increase and they proceed not from individuals any more, but from well organized groups", - noted Takai, referring to the Anonymous group as one of such threats.

The deputy secretary of the Ministry of Defence William Lynn, in last year's journal article told that more "100 prospecting foreign organizations try to get into networks of the USA".