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AgencySpotlight | DISA
arm for DOD’s cloud strategy. Now all cloud offerings flow through DISA.
The move complements DISA’s plan to provide common IT services for the Fourth Estate under the $11.7 billion De- fense Enclave Services contract. More- over, DISA has been working with DOD components and the military services to buy cloud-based products through the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract.
Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, who took
over as DISA’s director in February, summed up the agency’s role as giving warfighters the technology they need to win. “We are the operational technolo- gists who are bringing innovative tech- nology to the warfighter each and every day...the backbone of these operational forces,” Skinner said in remarks during his initiation ceremony. “We are also the command and control experts who are maneuvering the DODIN and the forces on the DODIN to build, operate, secure
and defend our department’s informa- tion networks.”
Those responsibilities will require DISA to harness data and find innova- tive and emerging technology solutions in 2021 and beyond. Consequently, by fiscal 2022, DISA plans to develop a DevSecOps framework and launch new data initiatives, including establishing a data governance council and using hyperautomation to weave data into decision-making processes. n
DISA By the numbers
Founded in 1960 as the Defense Communications Agency
Reorganized as the Defense Information Systems Agency in 1991
$11.4 billion budget
31% from congressional appropriations
69%
from the Defense Working Capital Fund
9,017
Total staff (authorized): 19% active-duty military 81% civilian
Top 5 contractors in fiscal 2020
1. Leidos
2. Booz Allen Hamilton
3. General Dynamics
4. Hewlett Packard Enterprise
5. Iridium Communications
Headquartered at Fort Meade, Md.
Personnel stationed in:
• 25 states
• Washington, D.C. • Guam
• 7 foreign countries
Supports 2,500+ user applications Manages 2.1 million .mil email accounts
Maintains Defense Information System Network infrastructure at 3,500 locations in 26 countries
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29% of fiscal 2020 spending was with small businesses 3.34% with woman-owned businesses
2.56% with veteran-owned businesses
2.28% with service-disabled veteran-owned businesses 1.97% with 8(a) businesses
1.34% with HUBZone businesses
Sources: Congressional Budget Office, Deltek GovWin, DISA
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