AGENCY MISSION ESSENTIAL
TASK LIST (AMETL)
1. Deliver joint and coalition enterprise infrastructure, information sharing services, and command and control that enable joint warfighting.
2. Operate, assure, and sustain the enterprise infrastructure and information sharing services, and enable command and control.
3. Deliver and operate reliable, integrated capabilities in support of national decision making and national nuclear command capabilities.
4. Deliver end-to-end enterprise-wide systems engineering for the GIG and testing to ensure joint interoperability.
5. Provide electromagnetic spectrum planning, coordination, deconfliction, and management services to enable DoD global operations.
6. Recruit and ensure the well being of our people.
7. Acquire, manage, and defend financial resources.
8. Provide telecommunications and IT contracting services.
DISA is a Combat Support Agency comprised of 16,000 people – military, federal civilian, and our contractor partners. We connect the enterprise – the forces, users, and partners globally, from user to user – where information is produced and consumed at speeds and in quantities never before imagined. Together with our partners, we provide the network, computing infrastructure, and enterprise services to support information sharing and decision making no matter where the information is located or sourced. We facilitate use of real time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance information to enable information exchange between the producer and the shooter. We work with our mission partners to provide technology and seamless exchange of information so that anyone who can connect to the network can provide and consume data and services anywhere on the network globally.
MISSION
DISA, a Combat Support Agency, provides, operates, and assures command and control, information sharing capabilities, and a globally accessible enterprise information infrastructure in direct support to joint warfighters, National level leaders, and other mission and coalition partners across the full spectrum of operations.
OUR VISION
Information superiority in defense of our Nation.
THE ENVIRONMENT
The challenges the Nation faces are global, instant, unpredictable, and often asymmetric. Engagements are scenario-driven and situation-dependent and occur within a greatly compressed time dimension. They create the demand for decision-quality information globally in a highly contested battle space, the cyber domain. In this environment, strategic decisions, joint warfighting, and supporting operations demand unprecedented speed and agility. Meeting these challenges requires concurrent planning, collaboration, dynamic defense, and decision making inside the enemy’s planning and execution cycle. We must enable information dominance as we support the new global warfighter on-the-move.
THE FULL SPECTRUM OF OPERATIONS
United States military forces must deploy globally, connect, pull information needed for their missions, and freely exchange information on demand with partners appropriate to the mission at hand. In this environment, the range of military options which the United States and its partners face spans the full spectrum of operations: offensive, defensive, stability, and support operations inclusive of conventional warfare, nation building, counterterrorism, special operations, humanitarian operations, and disaster relief. The capabilities and services we provide must support the full spectrum.
THE USER
The user is any individual or system contributing to the defense of our Nation. We are committed to deliver capabilities and services wherever on the globe the user operates. Working with our mission partners, we will provide the enterprise-level capabilities and services to connect users from wherever information is produced to wherever it is consumed. Furthermore, the capabilities and services must first consider the needs at the edge, particularly those of our joint warfighter, in order that we and our mission partners can truly support users end-to-end.
OUR MISSION PARTNERS
We base our planning on the requirements and priorities of our mission partners – the Combatant Commanders, the Military Services and Defense Agencies, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Joint Staff, to include national and coalition partners.
We will support them with capabilities and services that allow freedom of action and end-to-end engagements across the full spectrum of operations. Our collective goal with our mission partners is to enable and assure end-to-end service for users wherever they are globally. We will work with our mission partners to build agile resource and investment requirements for the enterprise through the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process.
DISAPPEARING BOUNDARIES
Today, information is virtual, on demand, and global. Products of the Internet and Web 2.0 have made possible worldwide connections and sharing never envisioned. Information traditionally used or generated in either the strategic or operational environment is also used and generated in the other. The effect of these technologies has empowered users throughout the enterprise. This means that the capabilities and services we provide now know no boundaries.
Today, decision makers and forces connect globally and collaborate and share information without regard to traditional technical or organizational boundaries. The practice of deployed forces reaching back to the sustaining base or core for information has changed because information can be available throughout the enterprise. Seams among strategic decision making, the sustaining base, and the edge where the user operates are disappearing. The objective, then, is a true Defense enterprise.
THE IMPACT
Our mission partners and users expect the capabilities and services DISA provides to support the entire enterprise. We are expected to enable national senior decision makers, joint warfighters, supporting organizations, and consumers of common services. Today, the use of enterprise capabilities and services eliminates traditional boundaries. We have extended beyond the tradition of delivering service to a point of presence on an installation for further distribution by a mission partner. In the past, a user had to work through a hierarchy of systems and system providers to reach back through the DISA infrastructure into the sustaining base for information and support. The objective now is transparency — finding and sharing information must be seamless to the user.
Considering this environment and the continuing rapid evolution of technology, we have developed the concept of the Enterprise Infrastructure. The Enterprise Infrastructure, which is described in this Campaign Plan, will be the foundation of the capabilities and services we provide. It will complement our mission partners’ capabilities and allow users to connect, share, and collaborate wherever they are and allow faster insertion of technology and capability. We will work with our mission partners to make sure the Enterprise Infrastructure enables freedom of action and end-to-end engagements across the full spectrum of operations.