The Defense Information Systems Agency has historically faced the challenge of distributing information and supporting the systems that deliver it all over the world — serving customers in locations ranging from the Oval Office to Afghanistan’s Helmand province. During the past 10 years, DISA also has needed to find ways to provide more of those services faster and less expensively. So challenges are hardly new.
But a variety of new circumstances — many of them created by policy rather than technology — are rising to potentially disrupt DISA’s forward march: the potential loss of staff during a headquarters move scheduled for 2010, setbacks to a next-generation command and control (C2) program, and organizational friction arising from the creation of the Cyber Command.
