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DISA Unveils New Five-Year Strategy

The Defense Information Systems Agency released the DISA Next Strategy, a strategic framework that identifies capabilities and goals for the next few years.

The Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA, recently released it Next Strategy strategic planning framework that aligns the agency with day-to-day, 5-year and 5-to 10-year efforts for the National Defense Strategy.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) recently released its new strategic plan, aligning the agency’s priorities with those of the Department of Defense through fiscal years 2025-2029. The plan, referred to as the DISA Next Strategy, outlines four strategic imperatives, six operational imperatives and eight goals to meet future cyber challenges.

“The purpose of this strategy is to drive this combat support agency’s priorities and initiatives to deliver capacity and capability to our warfighters,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert J. Skinner, DISA director and Joint Force Headquarters Department of Defense Information Network commander, stated in the 21-page strategy document.

From its start in 1960 as the Defense Communication Agency, DISA has supported the Defense Department to solve enterprise-level hard and complex IT and communications problems. This year—and for the foreseeable future—the agency has outlined its four strategic imperatives that comprise the DISA Next Strategy:

Operate and secure the DISA portion of the DoD Information Network, commonly referred to as the DoDIN
Support strategic command, control and communications
Optimize the network
Operationalize data

We must continue to deliver while being challenged by great powers. From great power competition with the People’s Republic of China, to supporting operations in emerging geographic areas of national strategic importance, both home and abroad.

Lt. Gen. Robert J. Skinner

DISA Director and Commander, Joint Force Headquarters Department of Defense Information Network

The strategic planning framework aligns the agency with day-to-day, 5-year and 5-to 10-year efforts for the National Defense Strategy. But DISA doesn’t work alone to solve these challenges. “We need Congress, the DoD, industry and academia unified towards this common purpose,” reads a portion of the document.

By 2030, DISA’s goal is to have a globally accessible, software defined, transport environment.

To do this, DISA will deploy software defined wide area network technologies, high-capacity routers and an underlying connectivity service. Other goals include operating a globally accessible hybrid cloud environment and adopting zero trust principles that enable DoD readiness.

“I am confident the agency will succeed – we have no other choice,” Lt. Gen. Skinner wrote in the foreword. “We must continue to deliver while being challenged by great powers. From great power competition with the People’s Republic of China, to supporting operations in emerging geographic areas of national strategic importance, both home and abroad.”

Learn more about the DISA Next Strategy.