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Key Lawmaker Proposes Ditching DISA

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, April 17th, 2018

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Key Lawmaker Proposes Ditching DISA

DISA headquarters at Ft. Meade, Md. Photo: Army.

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 by Jan. 1, 2021, and transfer its functions to U.S. Cyber Command and other agencies. DISA, which has more than 8,000 military and civilian employees, is charged with providing command-and-control and information-sharing capabilities to joint warfighters, national leaders and coalition…

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