The Defense Information Systems Agency has revealed a new strategic plan identifying the agency’s priorities for fiscal years 2025-2029.
The strategy, titled DISA Next, includes a wide range of objectives for maintaining cyber superiority that fall under four strategic imperatives, six operational imperatives and eight goals, DISA announced on Wednesday.
In the strategy’s forward, Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, director of DISA and a 2024 Wash100 Award winner, said while the agency will continue to provide its information technology services, it is also focused on change.
“We are re-organizing, optimizing and transforming to deliver resilient, survivable and secure capabilities to enable department success and warfighter lethality,” he elaborated.
He highlighted great power competition as a major factor influencing DISA’s transformation goals.
Skinner discussed DISA Next at the Potomac Officers Club’s 5th Annual CIO Summit last month, where he shared the strategy’s four strategic imperatives: secure, operational and available capabilities; strategic command, control and communications; modernizing for effectiveness; and data.
On June 6, the Potomac Officers Club will host its 2024 Cyber Summit, which will feature speakers like Skinner who will share their insights on the cyber domain. To learn more and register to attend the 2024 Cyber Summit, head over to the Potomac Officers Club website.
DISA Next’s six operational imperatives are providing relevant, modern, enterprise and business tools; providing a resilient and redundant Defense Information System Network backbone; managing the agency; operationalizing the cloud; unifying the network; and divesting technical debt.
The eight goals of the strategy target the Defense Information Systems Network, the hybrid cloud environment, national leadership command capabilities and joint and coalition warfighting tools as well as a consolidated network, zero trust tools, data management and workforce.
“The purpose of this strategy is to drive this combat support agency’s priorities and initiatives to deliver capacity and capability to our warfighters,” Skinner explained.