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DISA Releases Newest Two-Year Data Strategy

The agency's 2025-2027 strategy has three main areas of focus.

DISA's 2025-2027 data strategy outlines three key areas of effort. Credit: suldev-stock.adobe.com (This image was generated with artificial intelligence.)

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) published its data strategy for fiscal years 2025-2027 on March 4. DISA’s goal is to optimize its network, enhance cybersecurity and leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies to meet the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) operational needs.

According to DISA, the new data strategy is designed to align with the DoD information technology advancement strategy Fulcrum, DoD Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office’s Data, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Adoption Strategy, and the DISA Next Strategy. DISA plans to emphasize the importance of data governance, operationalize defense cyber data and business data, and foster a data-driven workforce.

DISA’s new data strategy will focus on three key lines of effort: strengthening data architecture and governance, integrating advanced analytics and cultivating a data-centric culture.

To strengthen data architecture, the strategy is designed to secure data as a strategic asset, streamline data infrastructure, promote data-sharing and increase data maturity. DISA’s goal is to enhance mission readiness and increase operational efficiency to support warfighters with timely, accurate and actionable intelligence. According to the strategy, DISA will prioritize unifying operations, combining joint all-domain command and control, and avoiding additional technical debt.

In its new data strategy, DISA emphasizes the need to keep up with evolving and cutting-edge analytical tools. The agency plans to facilitate data-driven decision-making, accelerate AI and machine learning adoption and implement interoperability frameworks and data standards. A few other priorities include integrating AI and machine learning into core business processes, creating an advanced analytics data lab on secret internet protocol routers and fostering authoritative data source management.

DISA’s focus on a data-centric culture is meant to empower employees with the skills and training necessary to harness the full potential of data, according to the strategy outline. The strategy’s plan is to increase data literacy through professional development opportunities, create data roles and responsibilities, and strengthen the use and awareness of knowledge management. According to the strategy, DISA plans to monitor and measure knowledge management effectiveness through performance indicators.

“As our data culture continues to mature, this strategy secures efforts to build on leveraging data as a strategic asset, enhancing decision-making and ensuring mission success in a rapidly evolving digital landscape,” the new data strategy reads.