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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
To procure Army cryptographic and key management materiel has yielded other cost and process efficiencies. The TYAD Communications Security team focused on the depot's equipment receiving process and reduced from 57 to 28 the number of days to receive, process and shelve equipment. For its efforts, TYAD COMSEC was awarded the Shingo Silver Medallion in 2012. Other efforts at TYAD have resulted in nearly $42 million in better buying power cost efficiencies by using new equipment in stock at TYAD to supply Army units that had initially planned to use their own funds to order more crypto devices. Being awarded one of the business world's top marks of operational excellence did not slow PD COMSEC's quest to improve COMSEC for Soldiers. It is implementing a new key management system called the Army Key Management Infrastructure (AKMI). AKMI will be a Web-based delivery that will streamline and simplify the process Soldiers are using now. It will also limit requirements for physical products and manual delivery through user-operated fill devices. The PD COMSEC team has also developed the COMSEC Virtual Training Environment, where training and sustainment skills are available 24/7 to anyone with a common access card. This virtual environment has lessened the blow of budget impacts to training, specifically for Local COMSEC Management Software post-new equipment training and refresher training. "Our team is working diligently to help the Army more efficiently and accurately account for all of its COMSEC items," Niemiec said. "On this -- our three-year anniversary -- we have only just begun our unending quest to protect and unburden our warriors by securing and simplifying the Army's networks in an effective and intensely resource-efficient manner." Related Links: PEO C3T CERDEC Teamwork and determination help EUCOM avoid nearly $2 million on Crypto Modernization Project http://www.army.mil/article/90791/PD_COMSEC_offers_upgrade_to_ensure_cryptographic_equipment_stays_in_compliance/ Tobyhanna Army Depot PEO C3T on Facebook
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