DIRECTOR'S INTENT
It is an honor to have the opportunity to lead the exceptional workforce within DISA. Over the past year, the incredibly determined and dedicated professionals of the Agency have remained committed to delivering vital information technology to the Department while simultaneously completing the Defense Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission-directed move of 2,800 personnel; obtaining a clean audit of the working capital fund; deploying 91 civilian and military members into combat operations; and implementing the largest email migration within the Department of Defense.
The DISA 2011-2012 Campaign Plan was published a year ago, with a focus on teaming with our mission partners in a joint effort to engineer and evolve the Department's information infrastructure and the capabilities it provides to better support the needs of our warfighters. The Campaign Plan laid the foundation for the establishment of a strategic roadmap to develop a converged enterprise "platform" of computing, networks, enterprise services and information assurance. The vision of the end state is an efficient, secure, and integrated enterprise infrastructure enabling delivery of information sharing capabilities to any authorized user and device, from anywhere in the world. The Campaign Plan also emphasized the need to provide adaptable, joint, coalition command and control (C2) capabilities and to operate and defend the Cyber environment throughout the full spectrum of operations. Collectively, these efforts are our Lines of Operations that are supported by our Joint Enablers. They, in turn, include a path toward employing agile acquisition and testing techniques to achieve rapid, continuous capability development and deployment; instilling sound governance and funding alignment to incentivize enterprise behavior; and reshaping of our workforce to support evolving mission requirements.
I fully endorse the plan because it remains relevant, aligning perfectly with the department-wide Information Technology Effectiveness initiatives. This means we can now look forward to achieving the Department's vision of a Joint Information Environment (JIE) that moves us from: stovepipes to enterprise; unique to common; local to global; proprietary to open; inaccessible to interoperable; disparate to homogeneous; vulnerable to secure; and from slow to agile and innovative. We will continue to leverage our experience, technology, and partnerships as we modernize the Department's overall information environment. We will continue to provide Command and Control (C2) and senior leadership support focused on information sharing via common enterprise services. We will accomplish this by providing situational awareness as we operate and assure the enterprise through the use of common architectures, common configuration management, standard operating procedures, and instilling operational rigor and discipline in how we operate and assure the enterprise. Finally, we will optimize investments by providing standardized services and business processes that enable the rapid infusion of technology into the enterprise.
Every part of DISA has an essential role in the execution of our Campaign Plan. Our partners throughout the Department, Government, and in industry have critical roles as well. As we collaborate with our partners to modernize the JIE and provide essential capabilities, our Campaign Plan will continue to evolve to ensure alignment with the needs of the Department and the Nation.