Need a Defense business service? ‘There’s an app for that’
“The Defense Department is modeling its new online storefront for downloading Web services after Apple Inc.’s popular App Store.
While the store lets Apple iPhone owners download games, search tools and other inventive applications, Defense’s marketplace will allow users to download large business applications and services such as pay systems and collaboration tools.
‘If I, as an end user, need a capability, there’s an app for that,’ said Dan Risacher, project lead and associate director of information policy and integration for the Office of the Chief Information Officer, mimicking Apple’s slogan for the App Store.
The shop is intended to ease transition into cloud computing, a setup where users access information technology programs remotely through the Web rather than owning the equipment and software outright. Cloud computing advocates say it could save the government billions of dollars and offer agencies more flexibility, according to a Sept. 21, 2009, presentation by Risacher at the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium Cloud Computing Workshop.”
(Source: Need a Defense business service? ‘There’s an app for that’ – Nextgov.)
