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Cyber

Demand, Budget, Complexity Among Pressure Points For JIE, DISA Director Says

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, May 12th, 2014

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Demand, Budget, Complexity Among Pressure Points For JIE, DISA Director Says

DISA headquarters at Ft. Meade, Md. Photo: Army.

Increasing demand on networks, budgetary declines, growing complexity of cyber missions and heightened global threats are the four pressure points weighing on the implementation of the Joint Information Environment (JIE), the top official for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) said Monday. To fulfill its vision for interoperable data across the defense components, DISA will need to wrangle the opposing forces of having to do more with less--all while cyber threats mount against the Department of Defense network. Though it…

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