The Mission Partner Environment is one of the key pieces for the U.S. in its goal to strengthen alliances in the Pacific and deter China, a top admiral told lawmakers.

Data support teams will help states and localities struggling to provide timely, reliable data on the virus' spread.

Efforts to track the coronavirus' spread have been hampered by a lack of interoperability between federal and state and local public health department, laboratory and care provider systems.

The military command has to clarify how it will measure success for integrated pieces of its Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture — or it will risk problems with of the initiative, GAO said.

CIOs have showed they're willing to cut through bureaucratic red tape during the pandemic, if it means streamlining IT services, said the deputy Federal CIO.

The Joint Health Information Exchange — the system built to have interoperability between DOD, VA and the private sector — continues to expand.