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Cyber

DISA Joint Regional Security Stacks Advances

Thursday, October 9th, 2014

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DISA Joint Regional Security Stacks Advances

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

In September the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) initialized the first Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS) at Joint Base San Antonio with its Army and Air Force partners. The JRSS is a set of equipment meant to upgrade a secure, consolidated, and collaborative Joint Information Environment (JIE) across the Department of Defense. David Stickley, Vice Director of PEO-Mission Assurance, said in a statement, “It allows DISA, Army, and Air Force to monitor compliance and apply consistent security policy to information…

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