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By Cheryl Pellerin and a cultural change. The Pentagon has to monitor the wireless network, he ex- The department also is working to
'2'1HZV'HIHQVH0HGLD$FWLYLW\ many sensitive compartmented informa- plained. create a pilot program for an effort called
tion facilities, or SCIFs, he said, referring Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, in
WASHINGTON – Part of Defense to areas or rooms where classified infor- About the Pentagon’s ongoing mobili- which people use their own mobile de-
Department Chief Information Officer mation is used, discussed or stored. ty effort, Halvorsen said two components vices if the devices meet minimum secu-
Terry Halvorsen’s work these days in- of mobility are users, who want mobility, rity requirements.
volves launching the Pentagon’s first “My office is a SCIF, … but at least and data, which has to be mobile -- and
wireless network and managing the roll- 50 percent of the time I’m not doing any- what the CIO called “point of execution” The pilot program was supposed to
out of “secure enough” mobile devices, thing that’s SCIF-able,” the CIO said. mobility. begin this summer, Halvorsen said, but
he told an audience here recently. “People who visit me ought to be able to it’s behind schedule. “I thought I would
come in and use their devices. … I want “Point of execution says what we re- have a BYOD larger pilot started by now,
Halvorsen opened July 9’s DOD CIO to be able to use my devices in my office. ally want to do is get the data right to the [but] I don’t,” he added. “My fault, [but]
Mobility Industry Day with keynote re- I do. But I have to be able to ensure some individual -- whether they’re on the bat- … we will get one started.”
marks to an audience of more than 600 things.” tlefront, whether they’re a medical tech-
attendees, about half of them from gov- nician or a data analyst -- right to them The CIO said he thinks there will be
ernment and half from industry. Halvorsen said he and his team are when they need the data” to execute their places within DoD that BYOD can be
looking to automate systems that control mission, Halvorsen said. used, but he doesn’t think it will be a ma-
“I think Wi-Fi is our big growth [area] the wireless network and, among other jor part of DoD operations “because of
for the department in terms of being able things, sound an alarm in a restricted DOD also is working to make more the complexities of trying to manage that,
to move data,” Halvorsen said, adding room if someone leaves a cell phone or applications and services mobile friendly even in a secure-enough [environment].”
that January 2016 is the target date for mobile device on. The Pentagon’s wire- while maintaining appropriate levels of
launching a wireless network in the Pen- less system will be two-tiered, he added: security, the CIO added. At Mobility In- Ultimately, Halvorsen said, the BYOD
tagon. one for users connected to DOD net- dustry Day, Halvorsen told the audience pilot will help the department understand
works, and a guest network for visitors. that they should replace the term “secure what service applications may be able to
Halvorsen said putting unclassified The rollout includes deploying capability mobility” with the term “secure-enough be made available to the workforce on
wireless in the Pentagon is a technical mobility.” their own mobile devices.

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eration Just Cause. As a military intelligence Soldier at Fort Huachuca in 1991, he was tem, and trained and deployed Soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan with the Warrior UAS.
drawn to the possibility of providing imagery in near real time. From that first flight in 1992 until its final flight here July 10, 2015, Hunter flew more

“There is no reason not to do this and every reason to do it,” he recalls. than 12,896 flight hours at Fort Huachuca. More than 11,000 U.S. service members and
In October 1991, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Test Company was officially foreign military students have been trained on UAS here. The 2-13th graduated the last
activated as part of the 111th Military Intelligence Brigade here. The company was Hunter class in October 2014. Other Army units still fly the Hunter UAS, although it is
made up of two joint service platoons with Soldiers and Marines. The company’s mis- being gradually replaced with Gray Eagle UAS.
sion was to provide joint service training, testing and doctrinal development for the
Joint Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Short Range Program. “It’s a bittersweet moment for us,” said Farrar, after his brief stint at the external pilot
By January 1992, a limited user test between the Hunter Unmanned Aircraft System, controls during the last Hunter flight. Hunter’s last flight here was also an emotional
developed by TRW (now Northrop Grumman) and McDonnell Douglas’ Sky Owl UAS event for Grosinsky, but it gave him an opportunity to reflect on his role in the Army’s
took place here. The government selected the Hunter as the Army’s short-range UAS as UAS story.
a result of that test. The first Hunter UAS class graduated here April 27, 1992.
Although, the Hunter program was officially terminated as the program of record “There isn’t a single UAS operator that I haven’t touched, either directly or indi-
in 1994, the trust-worthy system hung on. It was deployed for use in Kosovo where it rectly,” he said.
performed exceptionally.
The Army Aviation Center of Excellence took over UAS functions at Fort Huachuca The next chapter in the UAS story at Fort Huachuca is training universal operators,
in 2006. Now known at the 2-13th Aviation Regiment, the unit has increased in size and using universal ground control stations and transitioning the Hunter system to Gray
complexity since its start as an MI company. The 2-13th’s footprint has grown to mul- Eagle. Future UAS operators and maintainers will continue to forge the path originally
tiple facilities at seven locations on Fort Huachuca. It has also supported the testing and blazed by the visionary “Dirty Half Dozen.”
acquisition of the Army’s Shadow and Gray Eagle UAS, conducted training on the sys-
“I’m glad I was involved in it. We are building on that legacy. The future is going to
be phenomenal,” says Grosinsky as he contemplates what is next for Army UAS.

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