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MR. Chad Craner

Strategic Technology Office

DLA Research & Development

Strategic Technology Office Overview

The Strategic Technology Office explores opportunities and leverages technologies to provide new capabilities that enhance the user computing experience across the DLA organization (J6 ESAs and DLA J-Codes/MSCs) while reducing costs and administrative overhead. The team’s focus will be expanding beyond internal IT to include addressing supply chain issues directly impacting DLA’s ability to meet warfighter demand.

Priorities

  • Continuing to explore cloud “as-a-service” opportunities that reduce the infrastructure hosting footprint – Desktop as a Service, Mobility as a service, and others
  • Piloting of an Application Performance Monitoring tool to allow for better visibility of application performance - AppDynamics
  • Researching end-user remote access options for improving the external access experience – end-point devices, collaboration capabilities, direct external access to Cloud services, and others

Partnerships

Serves as the lead within DLA Information Operations for strategic IT vendor relations; DOD CIO and DISA for DOD enterprise initiatives; industry engagement. 

Contact Us

Chad.Craner@dla.mil

(703) 626-3942

Find more information on DLA Research and Development.