Navy CIO Carey Casts Off
By
Bob Brewin
Rob Carey, the Navy's chief information officer, said in a statement he expects to weigh anchor and move to a new position inside government, most likely by the end of the summer.
Rob Carey, the Navy's chief information officer, said in a statement he expects to weigh anchor and move to a new position inside government, most likely by the end of the summer.
Carey was appointed Navy CIO in November 2006 when he was serving on active duty as plans officer for a construction regi¬ment in a Seabee regiment in Iraq and took the CIO job in April 2007.
He was the first CIO in the Defense Department to embrace the blogsphere, a practice he still continues with a post this month on the power of information, not networks, data or digits:
Critical to the success of the Navy and Marine Corps is the capability to publish and consume information to support warfighting decisions at will. The Navy termed this outcome "information dominance." But what is it? I believe simply it's about providing any information, to any device, anywhere, at any time giving us the freedom to quickly identify, counter or defeat any threat.
Not a bad sign off.
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