I was a communications officer (Signal) in the army and can confirm with 100% certainty that the military has been in charge of WH IT since at least 2016 as I had a soldier selected for an assignment there which required some engagement from me as his commander. I can't tell you much beyond that because I just don't know, but the military has been in charge of WH digital comms since before Trump.
Your website seems to be about secure communication technology only. Also, your website only talks about "OPPORTUNITIES for military service members", not that it is controlled by the military.
Interdasting that the application link for WHCA Navy personnel (19% of the allotted billets) include several Cryptologic Technician ratings, including CTI (Interpreter) with Russian language skills.
WHCA supports more than just events and video. WHCA handles all secure comms which use MIL grade encryption systems (STU, SAT, KIV, etc.) which require MIL operators.
Since at least 2001. HSPD-12 doomed all the tiny independent .gov IT operations... PKI management at scale is too hard without dedicated staff and infrastructure.
Yep, smaller agencies lean on larger ones for PKI and other issues. Entities like FedRamp exist to provide common standards for the baby agencies who cannot perform testing, evaluation, configuration management, etc. due to small staff size.
I will verify this with a friend who was both DOD and WHCA. I think MIL has always controlled WH IT. Will advise.
Verification would be great!
I don't think so, but even if it turns out that it was always controlled by the WH, then the question would be: Why??
I was a communications officer (Signal) in the army and can confirm with 100% certainty that the military has been in charge of WH IT since at least 2016 as I had a soldier selected for an assignment there which required some engagement from me as his commander. I can't tell you much beyond that because I just don't know, but the military has been in charge of WH digital comms since before Trump.
Very cool. I️ was Signal corp, too. Enlisted. Miss those days.
Former Signal here. Ft. Gordon all day.
My friends in the SCIF at work right now (not WHCA anymore), but I think this will explain:
https://www.whitehousecommsagency.mil/ <<<-- .MIL
The big question is: Who is controlling who?
Your website seems to be about secure communication technology only. Also, your website only talks about "OPPORTUNITIES for military service members", not that it is controlled by the military.
There is something much deeper going on.
The domain name for WHCA is a dot MIL address. WHCA is run but the military at the behest of the WH.
Interdasting that the application link for WHCA Navy personnel (19% of the allotted billets) include several Cryptologic Technician ratings, including CTI (Interpreter) with Russian language skills.
WHCA supports more than just events and video. WHCA handles all secure comms which use MIL grade encryption systems (STU, SAT, KIV, etc.) which require MIL operators.
Only the military is capable of providing secure comms for the White House.
DoD operates the WH website for the same reason the Air Force flies the President around.
I'm sure they have everything on Evergreen and Renegade's private servers before they were destroyed.
Since at least 2001. HSPD-12 doomed all the tiny independent .gov IT operations... PKI management at scale is too hard without dedicated staff and infrastructure.
Yep, smaller agencies lean on larger ones for PKI and other issues. Entities like FedRamp exist to provide common standards for the baby agencies who cannot perform testing, evaluation, configuration management, etc. due to small staff size.