Department of Defense (DoD) Information Enterprise Strategic Plan

Synchronized and ResponsiveOperationsThe DoD Information Enterprise infrastructure,critical assets, and capabilities are operated, secured,and defended in a synchronized manner by all DoDComponents to support commanders in achievingmission success.The Synchronized and Responsive Operations goal of this strategic plan is for all DoD Components to operate, secure, anddefend the DoD Information Enterprise consistently. Operating in this coordinated manner will contribute significantly tomission success, help achieve and maintain cyberspace superiority within a contested environment, and support authorizedusers’ access to timely and trusted information when and where it is needed.This goal entails establishing GIG situational awareness from the tactical edge to the core, improving NetOps capabilities,enhancing C2 capabilities for allocating and managing DoD IE resources, and strengthening enforcement of DoD IEpolicies and standards. Information sharing across organizational boundaries and functional disciplines will be thenorm. DoD personnel will increasingly rely upon timely access to trusted, secure information that is shared to facilitatedecision-making processes at all levels of the command structure. Improving DoD IE customer satisfaction and confidencewill be essential to achieving the Department-wide culture changes necessary to overcome barriers to information sharing.Effective operations in cyberspace, in particular, must be assured through proactive operations management and unrelentingvigilance by the DoD IE support community. To achieve and maintain the dominant position in the militarily-relevantsectors of cyberspace, DoD must plan and execute its IE operations in a manner that leverages our technological advantageover potential adversaries and continually widens that gap.DoD IE operations must strive towards establishing and maintaining a balance amongmany competing priorities (including the need for increasing network security whilestill ensuring overall mission success) by understanding and proactively managingoperational risks to the DoD Information Enterprise. DoD IE operations must enablea persistent, dominant information environment that supports broader national, DoD,and IC objectives that assure U.S. and Allied freedom of action in cyberspace andsupported domains.Four objectives will need to be accomplished to realize this goal. First, DoD IEoperations will assure the availability, protection, and integrity of the DoD InformationEnterprise, which encompasses DoD and IC networks, systems, enterprise services,13