Defense Info. Infrastructure Engineering and Integration

FY2027 planned work • Advance the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework to enable seamless integration of digital security approaches, supporting automation and orchestration for enhanced detection and remediation, while allowing centralized security policies to be deployed across diverse vendor products via APIs through collaboration with a consortium of security vendors. • Explore the adoption of agentic AI to automate and orchestrate defensive cyber operations across diverse security tools and workflows, conducting assess current industry implementations and integration of authentication and authorization solutions to ensure least privilege access within a Zero Trust Architecture. • Deploy AI/ML-driven Cyber…

FY2026 to FY2027 change The decrease of -$2.950 million from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to Quantum Resistance Cryptography (QRC) development phase transitioning to the sustainment.

FY2026 plans — current year • Operationalizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Defensive Cyber Ops (DCO): Deploy comprehensive and proven AI platforms for DCO on multiple classification domains and for distinct mission spaces and user bases. Robust AI solutions will offer correlation of vast disparate datasets. Performing triage, summarization, and prioritization of alert and threat intel reducing mean time to threat resolution. • Develop and implement the Coalition Information Environment (CIE) Architecture to enhance interoperability, secure information sharing, and operational efficiency across allied forces in a collaborative, multi-domain environment. • Evaluate and deploy scalable, secure AI/ML solutions that…

FY2025 accomplishments Key FY 2025 efforts include: • Quantum Resistant Cryptography (QRC): Continue prototyping activities to test the performance and operational impacts of QRC encryption on systems, services, and networks. Test the functionality of Quantum Random Number generators that are used to generate pre-shared encryption keys. Quantum Random Number generators create random number pairings using quantum computers and are more secure than traditional methods. Deploy the crypto discovery solution in a production environment to identify all current versions of encryption. This understanding will inform the migration strategy away from legacy encryption to QRC standards. • Operationalizing Artificial…

FY2027 planned work • Model analyses and recommendations for changes for INDOPACOM and other Combatant Command/Joint Force architectures. • Model projections for virtualization and cloud adoption; model projections for DoWNet expansion. • Model projections for integration impacts of zero trust technologies within the classified infrastructure. • Validate IPV6 network performance monitoring and data collection tools to support modeling of future network architectures. • Support combined IP and optical infrastructure, multiple software defined wide area network interconnectivity, Next Generation Networking including DISA and service zero trust architecture for unclassified and classified networks. • Develop…

FY2026 to FY2027 change The increase of +$0.058 million from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due anticipated increases in contract costs.

FY2026 plans — current year • Replace proprietary OPNET modeling tools with modern tools that work across application, IP, transport, and optical layers. • Model analyses and recommendations for changes under new Hypercore (DISN resiliency) and INDOPACOM architectures. • Model projections for the utilization of new virtual desktop and mobility services to be migrated to classified cloud environments. • Model projections for integration impacts of zero trust technologies within the classified infrastructure. • Conduct training and support on the Joint Communications Simulation System. • Validate IPV6 network performance monitoring and data collection tools to support modeling of future network architectures. • Support…

FY2025 accomplishments Continue development and implementation of modeling and simulation suites and optimize for supporting Next Generation architectures and applications. • Continue modeling analyses and recommendations for architecture changes. • Continue modeling projections for the utilization of new classified desktop and mobility services to be migrated to cloud environments. • Continue modeling projections for integration impacts of zero trust technologies within the existing infrastructure. • Conduct training and support on the Joint Communications Simulation System. • Conduct test and evaluation of network performance monitoring and data collection tools for IPV6 capabilities to support modeling of…

FY2027 planned work • Tactical Data Link Configuration Management Tool Data Migration and Development. JINTACCS Tactical Data Link (TDL) Standards (IAW CJCSI 6610.01F). Develops the configuration management tool for 18 MIL-STDs and NATO STANAGs document production. Software development to modernize and secure legacy Configuration Management (CM) System that maintains the standards database for the Joint Warfighter information exchange definitions and specification essential for interoperability. • Develop capabilities for multi-level network modeling and simulation that span optical, satellite, network backbone, and multi- cloud services, to enhance decision-making and optimize performance across diverse…

FY2026 plans — current year • Develop and apply application and services performance monitoring approaches of end-to-end operations to support Agency and DoW CIO User Experience improvement. • Develop capabilities to provide multi-level network modeling and simulation across optical, satellite, network backbone, and multi-cloud services. • Research technology and solutions to better model, simulate and assess integration impact of the insertion of Zero Trust technologies across the DISN and DISA service offerings, as well as integration with other services initiatives across DoW.

FY2025 accomplishments • Developing and applying application and services performance monitoring approaches of end-to-end operations as the Agency expands the use of impact level 5 and level 6 (IL5 and IL6) cloud services offerings. • Leveraging knowledge gained in performance monitoring to improve modeling outcomes to better assess the impact of potential capability delivery or change on end user performance experience. • Researching capabilities to provide multi-level network modeling and simulation across optical, satellite, network backbone, and multi-cloud services. • Continuing to develop capabilities for modeling, simulation and analysis of software defined networking (SDN), which is an approach to…

FY2027 planned work • Expand automation and service lifecycle management to support enterprise-wide reuse and integration of IT services. • Provide enterprise guidance and reference architectures to ensure consistent, repeatable integration of IT standards across DISA programs and DoW mission partners. • Evaluate integrating quantum timing into the NTP protocol to enhance time accuracy and security by supplying top-level servers with ultra-precise quantum clock references, improving synchronization precision across the network. • Enhance the DoW IT and MIL Standards Tools to improve compliance, streamline integration, and ensure alignment with evolving Department of War information technology and military…

FY2026 to FY2027 change The increase of +$0.042 million from FY 2026 and FY 2027 reflects minor growth in efforts required to modernize and align enterprise architecture, as well as the initial implementation activities for the DISA Data Enterprise Architecture, supporting improved data governance, interoperability, and decision-quality analytics across the agency.

FY2026 plans — current year • Conduct research and testing of enterprise architecture artifacts to support interoperability, performance modeling, and capability evolution. • Develop and test the automation of the new DISA Common Services Repository (CSR) that will provide an enterprise-wide, centralized platform for cataloging, managing, and sharing reusable IT services across DISA and mission partners. • Research, develop, and test methods to integrate emerging DoW IT standards into the DoWIN enterprise architecture, ensuring compliance, interoperability, and cybersecurity alignment. • Complete the 5G Reference Architecture for deployment, enabling streamlined integration and utilization across department networks…

FY2025 accomplishments Key activities in FY 2025 include: • Developing the 5G Reference Architecture that will include topics such as the integration/interface of 5G technologies with Thunderdome/Zero-Trust. • Providing enterprise architectural support for SIPR Modernization in order to help define and focus investment choices for critical IA requirements.