One of the Defense Information Systems Agency's top leaders in the transition to the Joint Information Environment is on the move.
David Stickley, director of DISA's JIE implementation office, will retire on Oct. 2 "after 32 years of combined federal service," a DISA spokesperson said.
That service includes time as an Air Force colonel; before joining DISA he was the director of communications and CIO for the Air National Guard at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
As DISA's lead on JIE, Stickley has helped drive change in how the Defense Department does IT business, including orchestrating cross-department cooperation on the military-wide push to centralize IT security and coordinate Pentagon networks under JIE.
"Our real challenge is how we move out in what industry calls commodity services and apply those efficiencies," Stickley said last year. "The imperative has changed … we can't afford to allow the services to do their own IT in their own way anymore."
No replacement has yet been named, according to DISA officials.
