DISA Forecast to Industry

Special coverage of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s 2018 Forecast to Industry, providing an outlook on the agency’s procurement and acquisition plans for fiscal years 2018 and 2019.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022.

US sending ammunition, tanker trucks, boats to Ukraine

Latest package includes large amounts of ammunition, such as rockets for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, fuel tanker trucks and riverine boats.

16 months ago

A high altitude balloon floats over Billings, Mont., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. The huge, high-altitude Chinese balloon sailed across the U.S. on Friday, drawing severe Pentagon accusations of spying and sending excited or alarmed Americans outside with binoculars.

After UFO shoot-downs, senators fret over holes in homeland defenses

Lawmakers are eyeing NORAD's capabilities after a suspected Chinese spy balloon and other objects pierced North America's airspace.

17 months ago

DISA Forecast to Industry

The Pentagon plans to release details on an $11B IT contract soon

The draft RFP was supposed to come out in late September but was held for a review by the Pentagon's chief information officer.

DISA starts to monitor quantum-resistant encryption capabilities

The agency's emerging technology directorate outlined several new priority areas for fiscal 2021.

4 years ago

New internet browsing tools bolster DoD cybersecurity

DISA's Cloud Based Internet Isolation tool is making telework safer from cyber threats.

4 years ago

How DISA helped the defense workforce stay productive during COVID-19

The Defense Information Systems Agency rolled out critical collaboration tools to ensure the remote DoD workforce could do their work.

4 years ago

5 questions with the deputy director of DISA’s contracting arm

Deborah Daniels took over a critical IT job around the start of the pandemic.

4 years ago

DISA pinpoints three technology areas in revised strategic plan

This is the second version of DISA’s strategic plan for fiscal 2019-2022, which was originally released in 2019.

4 years ago

DISA grows in mission

DISA will be responsible for running IT for several Fourth Estate agencies.

5 years ago

It's all about the spectrum stupid

DISA's spectrum office is helping commanders make more informed decisions.

5 years ago

How DISA wants to use biometrics for persistent identification

The Defense Intelligence Agency’s Emerging Technologies Directorate has a prototype phone that uses biometrics to constantly verify the user's identity.

5 years ago

What great-power competition means for DISA

Here is how the Defense Information Systems Agency is adapting to the changing strategic landscape.

6 years ago

Here’s one way DISA wants to improve cybersecurity

The Defense Information Systems Agency is looking for innovative proposals to help reduce the cyberattack surface.

6 years ago

Is advocacy for small business advocacy for innovation?

Carlen Capenos, the new director of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Office of Small Business Programs, on reinforcing relationships to benefit the war fighter.

6 years ago

Speeding up how the Army acquires satellite bandwidth

The Defense Information Systems Agency wants a core network to provide ‘on-demand’ bandwidth capabilities.

6 years ago

A new AI center could help these two organizations

The Pentagon’s top IT officer said he expects a new Department of Defense center focused on artificial intelligence to be used, in part, for cyber operations and to protect the military’s networks.

6 years ago

When is the network not really the network?

The Defense Information Systems Agency is looking for internet browsing to take place on a commercial cloud and away from Department of Defense servers.

6 years ago

DoD boosting use of secret tablets

DISA will expand a pilot program deploying classified tablet devices to Department of Defense users.

7 years ago

5 technologies DISA’s director is excited about

Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn provided a brief overview of technologies the Defense Information Systems Agency needs industry's help with.

7 years ago