1: Speed

Deliver IT capabilities and services faster

Other Information:

We will become the joint acquisition agent of choice for enterprise information technology capabilities and services. We will adopt innovative ideas and processes to deliver capabilities and services that our forces are able to use with agility. We will increase the speed and flexibility of the requirements and acquisition processes used in delivering capabilities and services, and we will tailor oversight and governance to be commensurate with risk. Our goal is to close the gap between the availability of technologies and fielding them for warfighting advantage. DISA will follow the precepts of adopt-before-we-buy and buy-beforewe- create. If another organization has developed or acquired a capability or service that either fits or is close to fitting a need we have, we will adopt it. Where adoption opportunities are not available, we will turn to the private sector and acquire a capability or service that either fits or is close to fitting the need. The final choice is to create or build. We intend to avoid development and turn to others for solutions when we can. Speed of deployment is often more important than a perfect solution. We will pursue the adopt-before-we-buy and buy-before-we-create approach partly as a way of getting the 80-percent solution in the hands of the warfighter quickly. A fundamental element of our strategy is teamwork – teamwork with stakeholders, customers, and vendor partners. We will use a federated development and certification environment (FDCE), the “sandbox,” in which all can participate to foster innovation and collaboration and to introduce new capabilities and services into the GIG. We will ask developers, testers, and users to play in the “sandbox” by exposing candidate capabilities and services to warfighting, intelligence, and business users via the FDCE. We will incentivize vendors to do the same. Some candidates will take off; some will not. Success of the FDCE is dependent in part on the ability to do an early kill of those that do not. In any case, this richly collaborative approach will bring the best and brightest to the forefront and help us to speed the delivery of capabilities and services to warfighters.

Objective(s):

1.1: Innovative Approaches

1.2: IT Acquisition

1.3: Governance and Oversight

1.4: Competition

1.5: Performance-Based Approaches

1.6: Service Level Agreements

1.7: Pilots, Proofs of Concept, and Experiments

1.8: Involvement in Sourcing Decisions

1.9: Bandwidth, Processing, Storage, and Web Services

1.10: Industry Partners

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