“It’s called Fulcrum because it sits at the nexus between our national security strategy, our strategic management plans, our big thinking strategies, our workforce implementation strategies,” Beavers said during her fireside chat. “It gives you tangible steps to turn that strategic vision into an operational reality. It’s the department’s guide to help us as a community get to an interoperable, integrated platform.”

“I will need everybody’s help to turn that vision into reality by changing the decisions that you make every day as you’re solving your problems in the digital workspace. I need you to prioritize this interoperability and security,” she said.

“This DISA Next strategy describes where the agency is headed over the next few years,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert J. Skinner, DISA director and Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network commander, says in the strategy. “Our first priority is to simplify the network with large-scale adoption of a common IT environment. Consolidating combatant commands and defense agencies and field activities into this environment is a whole-of-agency effort and a key first step in providing a DOD-wide warfighting information system.”