DOD Digital Modernization Strategy 2019

Digital

CLEARED For Open Publication

DoD

Jul 12, 2019

Department of Defense

Modernization OFFICE OF PREPUBLICATION AND SECURITY REVIEW

Strategy

Information Resource Management Strategic Plan FY2019 ? FY2023

Version 0.9

Prepared by: Office of the DoD Chief Information Officer

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? Department of Defense Information Resources Management Strategic Plan, April 1, 2014

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Foreword

The global threat landscape is constantly evolving and remaining competitive and modernizing our digital environment for great power competition is imperative for the Department of Defense. We must act now to secure our future.

This Digital Modernization Strategy is the cornerstone for advancing our digital environment to afford the Joint Force a competitive advantage in the modern battlespace.

Our approach is simple. We will increase technological capabilities across the Department and strengthen overall adoption of enterprise systems to expand the competitive space in the digital arena. We will achieve this through four strategic initiatives: innovation for advantage, optimization, resilient cybersecurity, and cultivation of talent.

The Digital Modernization Strategy provides a roadmap to support implementation of the National Defense Strategy lines of effort through the lens of cloud, artificial intelligence, command, control and communications and cybersecurity.

This approach will enable increased lethality for the Joint warfighter, empower new partnerships that will drive mission success, and implement new reforms enacted to improve capabilities across the information enterprise.

The strategy also highlights two important elements that will create an enduring and outcome driven strategy. First, it articulates an enterprise view of the future where more common foundational technology is delivered across the DoD Components. Secondly, the strategy calls for a Management System that drives outcomes through a metric driven approach, tied to new DoD CIO authorities granted by Congress for both technology budgets and standards.

As we modernize our digital environment across the Department, we must recognize now more than ever the importance of collaboration with our industry and academic partners. I expect the senior leaders of our Department, the Services, and the Joint Warfighting community to take the intent and guidance in this strategy and drive implementation to achieve results in support of our mission to Defend the Nation.

David L. Norquist Performing the Duties of the Deputy Secretary of Defense

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Executive Summary

The DoD Digital Modernization Strategy, which also serves as the Department's Information Resource Management (IRM) Strategic Plan, presents Information Technology (IT)-related modernization goals and objectives that provide essential support for the three lines of effort in the National Defense Strategy (NDS), and the supporting National Defense Business Operations Plan (NDBOP). It presents the DoD Chief Information Officer's (DoD CIO) vision for achieving the Department's goals and creating "a more secure, coordinated, seamless, transparent, and cost-effective IT architecture that transforms data into actionable information and ensures dependable mission execution in the face of a persistent cyber threat."1 This vision is guided by four priorities and framed within four organizing goals.

Figure 1: Digital Modernization

DoD CIO Priorities: ? Cybersecurity ? Artificial Intelligence (AI) ? Cloud ? Command, Control and Communications (C3)

Digital Modernization Goals: ? Innovate for Competitive Advantage ? Optimize for Efficiencies and Improved Capability ? Evolve Cybersecurity for an Agile and Resilient Defense Posture ? Cultivate Talent for a Ready Digital Workforce

1 DoD IT Environment ? Way Forward to Tomorrow's Strategic Landscape, August 2016 ? available at

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This strategy also fulfills the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requirement to provide a description of how information resources management activities help accomplish agency missions, and ensure that information resource management decisions are integrated with organizational planning, budget, procurement, financial management, human resources management, and program decisions.2 It includes narratives that summarize the Department's approach to IT modernization, focused on the Joint Information Environment (JIE) Framework (in Section 3), and describe how Cybersecurity is being strengthened (Section 4). These efforts support achievement of the DoD CIO's modernization vision, and the goals and objectives identified in this strategy. Finally, appendices provide a brief description of promising technologies; tables showing alignment to the NDBOP, the President's Management Agenda, and DoD IT Reform Initiatives, respectively; and a summary of DoD CIO authorities.

2 OMB Circular A-130, "Managing Information as a Strategic Resource" - available at

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