“The Defense Health Agency is working to integrate and consolidate a variety of networks and systems across military treatment facilities (MTFs) as it continues to absorb the various military hospitals and clinics across the defense health space.”
“DHA CIO Pat Flanders has been coordinating the DHA consolidation of IT across the MTFs, which has largely meant meeting the challenge of connecting each of the service’s disparate systems, networks and IT assets. As long as there are duplicative capabilities across the MTFs, it is much more difficult to maintain resiliency and security, Flanders added…”
“For Med-COI, Flanders emphasized that the network’s architecture is focused around security.”
“It’s very deliberately architectured — a focus on security architecture,” Flanders said. “Basically, it’s … a single active directory, a single set of tools that we will install on the network [in] enclaves so that we can monitor and a singling up of the security stacks.”
“Flanders described this architecture as one built from “the ground up” in a Mission Partner Environment information system specifically designed for MHS in a way that’s separate from the Defense Department’s SIPRNet and NIPRNet, or the Secret and Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Networks.”
“Amid the technological changes come with the need to shift personnel and contracts…” Read the full article here.
Source: DHA’s Consolidated MTF Network Focuses on Security Architecture, Efficiency – By Melissa Harris, October 27, 2020. GovernmentCIO.
