The Department of Defense (DOD) recently released Digital Modernization Strategy, which replaces the 2014 Resources Management Strategic Plan and outlines the department’s implementation of information technologies.
The strategy addresses artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, the cloud, and command, control, and communications.
The strategy is also designed to ensure the military has a competitive advantage, empower new partnerships, attract workforce talent, and upgrade cybersecurity.
To accomplish this goal, the DOD has created four strategic initiatives: innovation for advantage, optimization, resilient cybersecurity, and cultivation of talent.
“Through four strategic initiatives, this strategy outlines how the department will increase agility and remain competitive within a constantly evolving digital global threat landscape,” Dana Deasy, DOD chief information officer, said. “The National Defense Strategy makes clear that the character of warfare is changing. Our ultimate goal is to ensure our men and women in uniform maintain strategic advantage on the battlefield.”
The DOD has approximately 10,000 operational systems and thousands of data centers. It operates millions of computers and IT devices, tens of thousands of servers, and hundreds of thousands of commercial mobile devices.
It conducts major activities in multiple industries, including intelligence, global logistics, and health and medical care.
The DOD had a budget of more than $46.4 billion in fiscal year 2019.