The coronavirus and subsequent pandemic accelerated the need for the Department of Defense to find new ways to operate and communicate in a distributed environment. The Navy was already testing and utilizing virtual cloud networks but needed to quickly scale to meet this new demand...

2022 saw the Navy’s cloud-based initiative continuing to make major stridesIn less than two years, the Navy has transitioned over 500,000 users from NMCI to a secure cloud environment. Flank Speed is the Navy's cloud-based initiative, built on a zero-trust framework, to provide Microsoft 365...

Rear Adm. Tracy Hines, director of Enterprise Networks and Cybersecurity for the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare (OPNAV N2N6), issued a public service announcement on Nov. 14 about the U.S. Navy's "biggest cloud technology advance" — Flank Speed.Rear Adm. Tracy Hines,...

The Program Executive Office for Digital and Enterprise Services (PEO Digital) used Agile software development framework to deliver Flank Speed in a quarter of the time for which it was originally planned...

Rear Adm. Susan BryerJoyner is the Navy Cyber Security Division Director, Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare (OPNAV N2N6). She received her commission in 1991 through the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she earned a...

Since the last edition of CHIPS magazine, the Department of the Navy (DON) has surpassed a major milestone in its modernization journey through the successful enablement of Flank Speed – the Navy’s permanent, single enterprise Microsoft 365 (M365) solution – to the first 266,000 user...

Did you notice the eye-catching cover of the new edition with FATHOM, the Information Bot designed by the Navy, to aid in the Flank Speed transition? In shiphandling, the command “Flank Speed” is an extreme engine order given for ships to evade danger or outpace threats. Right now the Navy is...

As you peruse the latest developments around DON IT, I want to draw your attention to two major developments – the sunset of CVR on June 15 and subsequent transition to Microsoft 365, and invite you to the upcoming DON IT Conference, May 24-26...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Beginning June 1, the Navy workforce will gain access to a single Microsoft Office 365 (M365) collaboration and productivity environment known as Flank Speed that will improve security and, over time, deliver additional tools to support a more productive Navy workforce...

For many, telework became the new norm. Fortunately, for Department of Defense personnel, almost immediately, the DoD Chief Information Office deployed the Commercial Virtual Remote (CVR) environment to support emergency mass telework operations. For the Department of the Navy, this brought...