Technology Initiatives Investment Fund
Abstract
In FY 2011, DISA will begin to take the initiative in developing, rapidly prototyping, and inserting innovative technologies into key strategic and tactical venues, such as the National Military Command Center (NMCC) and COCOM Command Centers. Building on DISA's rapid technology insertion success, the VCJCS and other senior DoD leaders had tasked DISA to take on this initiative in FY 2009. A Technology Innovation Investment Fund (TIIF), governed by an executive level investment review board, will select projects that can rapidly become part of the DISA capability set. Innovation projects will be selected through an annual competitive process. Projects will be evaluated based on technical feasability, executability, and mission relevance when compared with the investment (ROI). The DISA CTO will establish a portfolio of projects that strikes a balance between efforts that address stated gaps/technology areas of interest and unanticipated high payoff concepts. High-payoff projects will be quickly transitioned to sustainment programs. The new work will include intense efforts that are game-changing (e.g., VCJCS initiatives, NMCS transformation, enterprise services, GIG 2.0/joint basing); routine tasks (e.g., information sharing pilot, DSB/National Academy of Sciences work); new policy and governance engagement (e.g., oversight of network costs and enterprise services); and tasks specific to the DISA missions. We envision that additional new work will include DISA engagement on the evolving cyber initiatives, evolving coalition and information sharing, Federal information sharing and defense, and the NMCS transformation. Without funding, DISA will be unable to explore innovative technology investments for warfighting operational transformation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 74c4d55d7a2e74278bea7b1012a11f28