Defense Information Systems Agency

And I can't make promises, but I think probably sometime this year we will officially be an agency.

Think DLA, think DISA.

This is evidence of the senior leaders and how much they care about the problem and how much they want it solved.

Skin in the game.

And I can't make promises, but I think probably sometime this year we will officially be an agency.

Think DLA, think DISA.

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Yeah, I, I r- you know, great question.

I, I spent now 50 years, I, I started as a GS1 at, uh, Defense Information System Agency back in the day.

It was a component called DECO.

Um, and, and went, uh, you know, have... got my SES in, in the Pentagon for the Air Force in the CIO's office there, and spent time at, uh, Defense Mapping Agency, uh, and US Transportation Command.

Now, when s- after the Army, what did you then do?

Uh, so when I got back from Afghanistan, uh, 2018, uh, I start working at DISA and I was doing, uh, supply chain risk management threat assessments on cr- critical infrastructure.

Okay.

And, uh, so I was on that side of the house, uh, doing all sorts of analysis obviously.

And it's important for counterintelligence, obviously, because it's the insiders here that could be working for foreign powers that we're obviously most concerned about.

Y- yeah.

And, uh, so moved into DIA, left DISA, the, the Defense Information System Agency.

I went to Army Counterintelligence Command.

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Yeah

... as well as DISA and some of the other joint interoperable agencies to really look at, how do we shift the capabilities that we've got to the speed that we now need to operate? And a lot of times, that means we're looking at, where are the opportunities to eliminate some of those human decision-making friction points? You mentioned very clearly we've got to use AI to defend and fight against a- adversarial AI capabilities, so certainly the US military is thinking about that every minute of the day, I'd say.

Hmm.

Uh, I guess a- an overall sort of picture, because a lot of the audience is not gonna be...

Yeah.

Um, perfect.

So Lieutenant General Stanton, he's the commander of DISA, which is a Defense In- Information Systems Agency, so bringing together all of the information security capabilities across the different military components.

And so, uh, he would argue that, yes, we need to be thinking about s- computer systems and networks very differently, and not just-