The Defense Information Systems Agency is realigning its operations that handle its computing and storage activities. The move is designed to leverage efficiencies, reduce costs and increase standardization of services throughout the computing environment, agency officials said in a release.
At present, the Defense Enterprise Computing Centers along with other computing locations operate autonomously and process workloads independently. DISA's realignment will break down these stovepipes, creating a unified computing environment to maximize resources and capabilities.
"We conducted a careful and thoughtful review of our computing operations, in order to find ways to achieve cost savings, standardize processes and services and offer our mission partners increased capabilities at lower rates over time," David Bennett, DISA's Operations Center director, said in the release
A DISA spokesperson told C4ISRNET in an email that the new organizational construct will offer DISA and its customers "more standardization across the ecosystem [and] will increase transparency and optimize resource management."
Computing operations will be realigned into eight lines of business, DISA said, which will establish standard processes and practices managing revenue for those functional areas. The eight LOBs include communications, cyber, data center, implementation and sustainment, infrastructure, mainframe, server, and special services.
These LOBs will also "be interdependent, relying on the diverse relationships and resources made available by the redesign of the computing enterprise," the spokesperson said.
"The demand signal for the services that we provide has been steadily increasing. Our mission partners: the Combatant Commands, Services, and Agencies of the Department of Defense, are continually seeking more efficient solutions for their computing requirements while at the same time demanding lower rates," Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn, DISA director, said in the release. "This effort will ensure that DISA is providing the American taxpayer and our nation's warfighters with a highly efficient and highly capable computing and storage infrastructure at the enterprise level."
This move will not affect or impact implementation of DoD's joint regional security stacks, the DISA spokesperson said.
"The JRSS implementation will continue to be rolled out to DISA locations as previously scheduled. DISA's mission partners, the combatant commands, services and agencies, are continually seeking more efficient solutions for their computing requirements, while at the same time seeking lower rates," the spokesperson said. "This change allows DISA to make better use of all the [Defense Enterprise Computing Center's] capabilities as a single ecosystem, which translates into cost savings for the consumers of our services: the whole of DOD and the nation's warfighters."
This realignment will be effective in January 2017.
Mark Pomerleau is a reporter for C4ISRNET, covering information warfare and cyberspace.
