At this year's @GovCIOMedia Fed Tech Leaders Summit, Hon. Davies took the stage for an engaging fireside chat with Sarah Sybert, Managing Editor of GovCIO Media & Research, sharing a bold, forward-looking vision for the future of military technology. Adding to the milestone, Honorable Davies was honored with a prestigious Flywheel Award 🏆 at the summit, recognizing exceptional leadership and a relentless drive in pushing the boundaries of federal technology modernization. During the discussion, Honorable Davies made it clear that the @DeptofWar is not playing on the margins; it is changing the game. Under the leadership of @SecWar Hegseth and the Arsenal of Freedom initiative, the Department is driving a generational, non-linear transformation to ensure today’s digitally native warfighters maintain dominance in a hyper-contested landscape. The era of "business as usual" is officially over. By focusing on mission outcomes rather than administrative paperwork, every process reformed and every line of code deployed is designed to translate directly into an operational advantage on the front lines. 💪 #DigitalModernization #Defense #Innovation #CJADC2 #FedTechLeadersSummit26 #FederalIT

Our adversaries are always probing our defenses and trying to exploit any weakness. we must defend at the speed of innovation. 🦅 At the NCIF conference, Acting Principal Deputy CIO Aaron Bishop explained why the @DeptofWar is embracing active defense powered by #AI to counter emerging threats in real-time. "We need to do active defense... We need to go through logs... not with humans, but with technology to do it for us at flying speed." Outdated processes are a relic of the past. We are modernizing our cyber defenses to protect the American Warfighter and secure our digital domain. 🇺🇸 #DoWCIO #CyberSecurity #NationalSecurity #Innovation #CISO

Happy Birthday @SecWar Hegseth! 🎂🦅

On the 82nd anniversary of the Normand landings, the DoW CIO salutes the brave American and allied men and women who freed the world from the grip of tyranny.

Electric energy yesterday as the DoW CIO @DoWCIODavies spoke to a full room at the Gartner® Security & Risk Management Summit on June 3rd in National Harbor, MD, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with colleagues from across the @DeptofWar and interagency partners! Under the leadership of @SecWar, the Department is locked in on one unbreakable mission: defending our nation's digital infrastructure. 🇺🇸 Honoring the spirit of the Arsenal of Freedom not with words, but with action, they are forging the digital universe together. To achieve @POTUS's vision of peace through strength, America will completely dominate the digital battlespace! 🦅 The appearance of any non-federal entity’s name, brand, or mark does not constitute an endorsement by the Department of War of such non-federal entity nor of the non-federal entity of the Department of War.

Our ultimate asymmetric advantage on the digital battlefield? The human mind. 🧠🖥️ Today at TechNet Cyber, Ms. September Secrist detailed how the DoW Cyber Academic Engagement Office is mobilizing a 500 school ecosystem to build a world-class cyber cadre. From Cyber Service Academy scholarships to joint training ranges, we are forging a national talent reserve to defend @SecWar’s Arsenal of Freedom. Looking for a mission that matters? Come defend the nation. 🇺🇸 #DoWCIO #CyberSecurity #NationalSecurity #ArsenalOfFreedom #STEM #CyberStrategyforAmerica #cloud #IT #cyber #ZeroTrust #data

Amazing kickoff at #TechNetCyber! Honorable Davies opened the conference, delivering an inspiring address to a crowd of over 2,000 cyber, IT, and defense leaders. A special thank you to the @AFCEA team for organizing an outstanding event as we celebrate #America250. During her speech, Honorable Davies detailed how the DoW CIO office is actively building @SecWar’s "Arsenal of Freedom”—supercharging innovation and transforming critical IT and cyber programs for the American Warfighter. 💪 To sustain @POTUS’ vision of peace through strength, she emphasized the strategic imperative to dominate the digital domain, shift to agile delivery models, and leverage the immense buying power of the @DeptofWar. She noted that software is shaping the modern battlefield, data is the new ammunition, and our skilled cyber workforce remains our ultimate strategic advantage. By equipping our warfighters with unmatched technical superiority, the DoW CIO office is paving the way for a new golden era of prosperity and innovation. Let's get to work! 🦅🇺🇸 ICYMI: Watch 📺 Honorable Davies AFCEA TechNet Keynote starting at 18:30 min here: youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8KmXdK…

Today at the 2026 TechNet Cyber Conference, Mr. J. Aaron Bishop— United States Department of War Acting Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer and Cybersecurity and Chief Information Security Officer — highlighted that defending the Nation against adversarial attacks in cyberspace relies on one critical asset: a dominant, mission-ready cyber workforce. 💪 Managing our 240,000-strong cyber force requires a data-driven, multi-disciplinary approach. To overcome turnover and reduce more than 14,000 current cyber vacancies, Mr. Bishop outlined how the Department is forging ahead in the complex future of talent warfare. Guided by the DoW CIO’s Cyber Workforce Strategy Implementation Plan and the foundational Department's Cyber Workforce Framework, the DoW is streamlining talent acquisition, enhancing operational readiness by expanding our qualification program, developing and upskilling our current talent pool, and building bridges with academia to develop robust cyber curricula and outreach programs to secure the next generation of digital defenders. 💻 Check out how we are building a resilient, agile cyber force ready to secure a sustained information advantage in the digital domain: cyberworkforce.mil #CyberTalent #DoWCyberWorkforce #TechNetCyber2026 #cloud #IT #cyber #ZeroTrust #data

DoW CIO Kirsten Davies hosted Director General Tae Kon Kim, Defense Acquisition Program Administration (@dapapr) last week. Their meeting reaffirmed our two nations shared commitment to risk-based frameworks for defense technologies. @SecWar Hegseth has discussed the importance of the Korean Peninsula and our alliance with the ROK, one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world. The frameworks and other issues discussed last week ensue the forces of both nations have the network capacity, security, and interoperability required to “Fight Tonight” and maintain peace on the peninsula through technical strength.

Hon Kirsten Davies, DoW CIO, and Mrs Marci McCarthy, Dir. External Engagements, met with Ambassador Bill White (@USAmbToBelgium) during the recent NATO Digital Policy Committee meetings in Brussels. The group discussed cybersecurity and IT issues facing the alliance and Europe during their meeting. Ambassador White shared his thoughts and perspective as the @POTUS’s representative to a country that truly sits at the crossroads of Europe. The CIO would like to thank the Ambassador and the Embassy Brussels team for their Southern Hospitality during the trip. We are looking forward to the next visit! 🇺🇸 #Cyber #Cloud #IT #DoW_CIO

The DoW is proud to see our cyber workforce mission recognized as Mr. Mark Gorak wins the 2026 @MeriTalk Powering Progress Award (Cyber Defender)! 🏆 Our people are our decisive edge. We are driving modernization by: ✔️ Focusing on demonstrated capabilities alongside academic credentials ✔️ Innovating academic pipelines ✔️Up-skilling for warfighter readiness ✔️Leveraging data for real-time readiness We remain dedicated to empowering the people who defend our digital domain. 🇺🇸🖥️ #DoWCIO #Cybersecurity #CyberWorkforce #CyberDefender #Innovation From left to right: Emily Wood, PM, 300Brand and Mark Gorak

The @DeptofWar is modernizing the Arsenal of Freedom with a $9.7B CETA contract with Dell Federal Systems for Microsoft services. 🦅 Delivering on @SecWar Hegseth’s mandate to reduce IT redundancies, this is not new spending. We are consolidating fragmented IT budgets into a single vehicle to save taxpayers an initial $422M annually. This agreement serves as the digital connective tissue to power CJADC2—arming our Warfighters with collaborative capabilities to share cross-domain intelligence and execute at the speed of relevance. By ensuring peace through technical strength and rigorous fiscal discipline, we are delivering on President Trump's vision of a golden age of prosperity and innovation.🇺🇸 Read More: war.gov/News/Releases/Releas… #DigitalTransformation #TechAdvantage #CJADC2 #Cloud #Cyber

An incredible honor to remember and celebrate our fallen warriors and American heroes at today’s Memorial Day services at Arlington Cemetery with @POTUS and @SecWar. We will never forget your service or your sacrifice. From a grateful nation - we salute you 🇺🇸

Please join the @DeptofWar CIO this Memorial Day weekend 🇺🇸in pausing to honor and remember the brave men and women of our Armed Forces who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation. As we proudly support those who defend our nation across every domain — land, sea, air, space, and cyber 🛡️ — we remain mindful that our freedoms were secured by heroes who gave everything for the United States of America. 🦅 This weekend, we remember them. We honor them. We say their names. 🇺🇸 “Each of the markers on that field — each of the names engraved in stone — teach us what it means to be loyal and faithful and proud and brave and righteous and true.” — President Donald J. Trump @POTUS

At the @NATO Digital Policy Committee, @DeptofWar CIO Kirsten Davies and @USAmbNATO Whitaker discussed the rapid acceleration of the Department’s digital transformation. By modernizing our IT, Cyber, and telecommunications infrastructure, the DoW is driving operational excellence for the Warfighter. @SecWar Hegseth has given us a clear mission. Strategic investments in the Mission Partner Enterprise, Cloud, Zero Trust, ICAM, and Spectrum Management are essential to securing technical overmatch and fulfilling our obligations to the Alliance. 🦅🇺🇸

Hon Kirsten Davies, @DeptofWar CIO, led the U.S. delegation to the @NATO Digital Policy Committee. This is a bi-annual meeting of the Allies to discuss IT and Cyber initiatives ranging from the Alliance’s cloud program to its approach to Cybersecurity. Reinforcing the importance of continuous delivery, an agile requirements process, decoupling governance from capability delivery, and culture change, she represented the President and SecWar as the group worked through the details of the Alliance’s modernization efforts. 💪 21st Century Warfare is not like any other in U.S. history, the battlespace will extend from the homeland to the front lines, and the fight will move at the pace of data. In modern warfare, new technologies, and new uses for old technologies, will be the norm not the exception. We must accelerate our efforts, the warfighters on the Alliance’s font lines deserve better. 🇺🇸 #Cyber #Cloud #ZeroTrust

Mr. Aaron Bishop, DoW CISO and acting Deputy CIO for Cybersecurity, spoke today at the @PotomacOfficers Club 2026 Cyber Summit to discuss key features of the @DeptofWar way ahead for IT and Cyber transformation with an the audience of GovCon leaders. Cybersecurity always will be our number one priority, but we are revolutionizing how we deliver security to the edge for our Warfighters. Zero Trust and ICAM are foundational to this effort, but we aren't stopping there. Our DIB partners are key, their cybersecurity is our cybersecurity.🖥️ We are also accelerating our secure software delivery to bring agility and modern practices to our digital tools. Underpinning this is our focus on non-traditional skills based hiring and the Cyber Registered Apprenticeship Program (Cyber RAP). More details will be released in the coming weeks, we are moving fast! 🦅🇺🇸 #Cyber #Freedom250 #Data #ZeroTrust #CyberRAP #POCCyber2026