State of Readiness

with a military organization as large as the Saudi Arabian National Guard, maintaining operational readiness is a tremendous challenge. It requires everything from determining the location of combat vehicles to delivering weapons and supplies to dozens of brigades and thousands of soldiers—often on a moment’s notice. But for Brigadier General Abdulaziz Almogbel, the organization’s general manager of information technology and security management, operational readiness involves the movement of a much more tenuous commodity: information.