Army CIO retires quietly
Word has leaked that Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, Army chief information officer, has retired.
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, longtime Army chief information officer and a key leader in military modernization, has retired from his post. Today was his last day, a spokesperson from the CIO/G-6 office has confirmed.
Sorenson, who has been the Army CIO since December 2007, reportedly marked his retirement quietly with a send-off on Nov. 4, according to a source familiar with the situation speaking on background.
As Army CIO Sorenson has championed the modernization of military IT, and has been a vocal proponent and force behind the Army's Land Warfare Network, that service's portion of the military's Global Information Grid. The GIG is the Defense Department's enterprise-wide communications network designed to link the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.
No further information has yet been made available.