DISA details streamlining plan for 2012
- By Amber Corrin
- Jan 17, 2012
The Defense Information Systems Agency is taking on the Defense Department’s fragmented IT services as its top priority for 2012, with some new initiatives getting underway and some more familiar efforts that are gaining traction despite hurdles that have cropped up along the way.
“We’re focusing on enterprise services as our number one priority,” said Tony Montemarano, DISA director for strategic planning and information. “We’re trying to get [DOD] up to the 21st century – that is, centrally operating, enterprise IT capabilities.”
Montemarano spoke as part of a DISA panel hosted by AFCEA DC in Arlington, Va., on Jan. 17.
To help grease the wheels on enterprise IT, DISA is combining two separate offices that have dealt with varying areas of enterprise IT: the computing services directorate, which has included DISA’s data centers, enterprise e-mail, enterprise Sharepoint and content delivery, and the program executive office for Global Information Grid enterprise services (PEO-GES), which has had responsibility for services such as the organization’s net-centric suite and Defense Connect Online.
The services will all be under the PEO-GES, according to Alfred Rivera, DISA director of computing services, who will oversee the portfolio.
Rivera said it makes the most sense to bring together the distinct capabilities, which become more closely aligned under the agency’s increasing focus on efficiency and enterprise services.
“The key is that we had two separate organizations running these enterprise portfolios. Now we’re hoping to sync leadership. We’ll have all those enterprise portfolios under one authoritative organization; we’ll achieve some efficiencies from a programmatic perspective,” Rivera said. “All of these services have to take advantage of the computing side of the house, so hopefully converging in terms of knowledge and engineering will help avoid duplicative engineering services and design.”
Rivera said the process to merge the two offices is beginning this week and will be formalized by mid-February.
DISA’s highest-profile DOD-wide service is enterprise e-mail – so far the focus has been on the Army’s implementation of a single cloud-based e-mail capability, but the Army’s efforts for now are frozen under orders from Congress to provide more information on the use of competition, effectiveness and application to the other military services.
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| January 17th, 2012 by Caleb Gilles | Posted in Informational Technology Articles |
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