Photo By Sgt. 1st Class Mary Junell | Army Col. Richard Berthao, the Chair of the Information Management Advisory Council...... read more read more
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The North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) hosted the Information Management Advisory Council (IMAC) at Joint Force Headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, April 9-12, 2018.
The annual event brings together the Chief Information Officers (CIO) from the 54 states and territories that fall under the National Guard Bureau.
“It’s basically an opportunity for all of the National Guard CIOs to collaborate, talk about current issues, current trends and items of interest from each state’s perspective,” said Army Maj. Robert Felicio, the Chief Information Officer for the NCNG. “We collectively get everyone together so that not only can we work though whatever issues or problems people may be having, but we can highlight some of the best practices and create some efficiency.”
Army Col. Richard Berthao, the Chair of the IMAC, assigned to the Massachusetts National Guard, said one of his goals for the event was to have an opportunity to collaborate on problem solving for issues that address the states and the nation.
“We say here’s a problem that we all have and here are two or three examples of how a certain state solved it,” said Berthao who has been involved with the IMAC for more than 16 years. “When you share similar problems that you face you can also share lessons learned and success stories.”
The event also brought in industry partners and venders whose equipment and software many of the states and territories use in their daily operations.
“We brought in people that we are already using,” said Army Lt. Col. Michael Riley, the Vice Chair of the IMAC, assigned to the Pennsylvania National Guard. “Not for them to sell us a tool, but they came to teach us how to optimize and use the tools we already have more effectively.”
Riley said he hopes that at the end of the event, all of the states and territories in attendance will have the same message to bring back their organizations.
“There’s a lot of ability for us to collectively have a voice,” he said. “This is the opportunity to solidify that voice and make it one, so everyone is giving their senior leadership at the state level the same message.”
The IMAC will be hosted in a different location next year, but still with the hope of bringing together the CIOs from across the country to collaborate and solve problems as a group.
| Date Taken: | 04.27.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 04.27.2018 13:27 |
| Story ID: | 274791 |
| Location: | RALEIGH, NC, US |
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