The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in the coming weeks will begin the migration of new users to its modernized network, DoDNet, for fiscal year (FY) 2025, with plans for continued expansion into FY2026.
“We are weeks away from launching major activities for DoDNet. We are migrating six agencies beginning in FY2025, and another five agencies in FY2026,” Sharon Woods, the director of DISA’s J6 Endpoint Services and Global Service Center, told reporters today.
DISA designed DoDNet to deliver a single, secure Fourth Estate network for defense agencies and field activities, ensuring all users benefit from the same level of security and resiliency.
This standardized and consolidated network now serves more than 32,000 users and workstations, including personnel from DISANet, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, and the Defense Technical Information Center.
DoDNet was developed as part of the Defense Enclave Services program, a $11.7 billion cloud computing contract aimed at modernizing defense agencies and reducing IT burdens.
For the past two years DISA – in collaboration with Leidos – has migrated Defense Department users from legacy systems to DoDNet.
According to Woods, by integrating these disparate networks into a single, optimized environment, DISA has given these users access to common applications and tools, “enhancing their resilient and flexible capabilities for current and future defense operations.”
Former DISA Director Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner detailed the agency’s plan to “hit the accelerator come October” to bring more users onto DoDNet. According to Skinner, the agency plans to bring the number of users on DoDNet to 100,000.
Thus far, the agency has six migrations planned for FY2025 and five more planned for FY2026.
The migrated users for FY2025 will include the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Defense Contract Management Agency, and Defense Contract Audit Agency among others.
