Upcoming Strategy To Boost DISA's Role As Network Defender

By Sebastian Sprenger / September 10, 2014 at 6:24 PM
A soon-to-be-released Pentagon strategy will position the Defense Information Systems Agency as the premiere organization entrusted with defending military networks, according to the head of U.S. Cyber Command. The document is expected to recast the agency's traditional role as a provider of acquisition and engineering services, adding to it a defense responsibility now predominantly held by the military services, Adm. Michael Rogers said at a Sept. 10 Reserve Forces Policy Board meeting in Arlington, VA. As an "operational" force devoted...

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