US DISA unveils Five-year strategy

The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has unveiled its updated strategy for the next five years which will align the IT service provider of the Department of Defense (DoD) with the 2022 National Defense Strategy.

“As a combat support agency and the premier IT service provider for the Department of Defense, we will continue to provide world-class services. At the same time, we are changing. We are re-organizing, optimizing, and transforming to deliver resilient, survivable, and secure capabilities to enable department success and warfighter lethality,” said Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, DISA’s director.

The strategy adds: “We must capitalize on opportunities to simplify the IT environment, experiment with emerging technologies, and test our solutions in the environments in which the Joint and Coalition Forces operate. We seek to partner with industry and academia to shape IT innovation towards solving our information system challenges.”

The second goal of the strategy is for DISA to have, by 2030, a "resilient, globally accessible hybrid cloud environment rooted in DevSecOps principles and supporting emerging 'as code' and 'as a service' capabilities." The strategy says,  "DISA’s hybrid cloud environment includes actively managed on-premises cloud, data centers, hosting capabilities, and cloud-based tools.”