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Key Lawmaker Proposes Ditching DISA

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, April 18th, 2018

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The Navy is challenging its program directors to find ways of opening legacy systems to new capabilities, but the process of moving to modular, open systems architectures retroactively is a slow and difficult process, according to a senior service scientist.The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) would be scrapped under a Department of Defense streamlining bill unveiled April 17 by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.Thornberry's proposed “Comprehensive Pentagon Bureaucracy Reform and Reduction Act” would eliminate DISA…

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