Tuesday, 18 August, 1015 - 1130

Army Networthiness Program

The Army Networthiness (NW) program was created out of an Army need to
address compliance. Its purpose is to ensure that all applications,
systems, devices, web services, and hardware purchases support Federal,
Department of Defense, and Army guidelines, regulations, and requirements.
In effect, the program is to determine whether an application or system is
worthy to go on the Army's Enterprise network. The NW program assesses
interoperability and supports the Army's goal for a standard baseline,
utilizing Enterprise License Agreements to maximize the reach of our IT
dollars. NW was developed in a proactive way to preclude drive-by fieldings
of systems, serve as a safety-net prior to anything connecting to the Army
LWN, prevent products from causing damage or interoperability issues, and to
mitigate the risks posed to the Army LWN due to Supply Chain Risk Management
(SCRM) issues.

NW will be elaborate on processes and procedures, the importance of each,
and authoritative sources for determining compliance. In addition to these
topics, NW will discuss the improvements to the NW process and future NW
initiatives.