The plan positions the agency for the future and spells out the agency’s mission, vision, strategic goals and key objectives that will shape and prioritize DISA’s efforts for the next five years. Based upon recent Department of Defense (DoD) Strategic Guidance, DISA’s new plan supports DoD’s global efforts and accommodates communications and information sharing network needs for the Joint Force of the future. The plan also focuses DISA’s goals with DoD’s strategic shift areas of: Global Defense Posture; Cyber Command and Control; Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications Support; DoD Joint Information Environment; DoD Cloud Services; Mobility Initiatives; Acquisition Agility; and DISA First.
“DISA is a combat support agency, and our number one priority is enabling information superiority for the warfighter,” states DISA director Lt. Gen. Ronnie D. Hawkins Jr. in his Director’s Intent. “We know we cannot obtain information superiority on our own, but we are proud of the capabilities we bring forward to enable the DoD to reach their goals.”
The agency’s target objective state is an enterprise information environment that optimizes the use of the DoD information technology (IT) assets by converging communications, computing, and enterprise services into a single joint platform that can be leveraged for all Department missions. These efforts reduce total cost of ownership, improve security, and enable DISA’s mission partners to more effectively access the information resources of the enterprise from any authorized IT device anywhere in the world. The plan is available for review at https://www.disa.mil/~/media/Files/DISA/About/Strategic-Plan.pdf.
