Monday, April 19, 2010

Army Knowledge Management and Information Technology

SUMMARY of CHANGE
AR 25–1
Army Knowledge Management and Information Technology
This major revision, dated 4 December 2008--
o Clarifies Army Knowledge Management goals and practices and states the Army
goals for electronic government (paras 1-8 and 1-10).
o Updates the responsibilities pertaining to the management of information
technology (chap 2).
o Adds policy on reporting of capital and other information technology
expenditures in preparation of information technology budgets (para 3-3c).
o Updates policy on investment management, management of information
technology through portfolios, and mission area and domain leads (para 3-4).
o Adds policy on Privacy Impact Assessments (para 3-8f).
o Adds policy on accelerating the use of commercial-off-the-shelf information
technology software and services (para 3-9).
o Updates and adds policy on Army Interoperability Certification; Defense
Business Systems Certification; Army Portfolio Management Solution/Army
Information Technology Registry (para 3-11).
o Revises and updates policy regarding the Army Enterprise Architecture;
requires waivers to Department of Defense Information Technology Standards
Registry; provides policy on the implementation of Internet Protocol version
6 (chap 4).
o Updates information assurance policy including the transition from
information assurance vulnerability alerts to information assurance
vulnerability management and the Defense information technology security
certification and accreditation process to the Defense information assurance
certification and accreditation process (para 5-1a).

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