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JWICS Tech Refresh Almost Complete, DIA Official Says

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, October 8th, 2024

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JWICS Tech Refresh Almost Complete, DIA Official Says

Pictured is Defense Intelligence Agency CIO Doug Cossa addressing the DoDIIS conference in Portland, Oregon last year (DIA Photo)

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has nearly completed a technology refresh upgrade of the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS)--a DoD/intelligence community network for the dissemination of Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information, a top DIA official said on Tuesday. "We are almost done with [JWICS] tech refresh," Doug Cossa, DIA's chief information officer, told an Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) virtual forum. "We're essentially there. That has been the focus over the past two years since we started the…

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