The National Guard be funded to provide adequate access the common primary email and collaboration platform used by the other Army Components

The Army Network Command (NETCOM) has replaced the previous Defense Enterprise Email (DEE) service which provided one common email platform for ALL Army Soldiers/DA Civilians/Contractors from all three components. The replacement (Army 365) to the DEE platform was not fully funded and only allowed for 905,000 licenses to be split between the three components. The National Guard has only been authorized 172,000 licenses which leaves the remaining ~268,000 Soldiers without any current functioning military email or collaboration platform. This leaves a "majority" of our National Guard Soldiers without a way to receive any military related communications that may contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI) or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Army Google Workspace (AGWS) has been proposed and funded as a stop gap for those Soldiers without access to Army365, but nine months into the first contract year, AGWS still provides nothing more than unencrypted email, a function that can already be performed with any personal non-military email service.

Congress funds the National Guard to provide adequate licenses to all Soldiers,/DA Civilian/Contractor to access the common primary email and collaboration platform used by the other Army Components.