DISA says the mobility program is a novel approach to IT procurements and that it is working to create a secure adaptive mobile environment necessary to incorporate the steady advancement of technology, including application development, changing security architecture requirements, and continuous enhancement of equipment.
The program works through a collaborative team approach among combatant commands, agencies, services, and vendors to ensure that as the mobile environment changes, the security environment adapts with it to maintain the security requirements necessary to protect critical information, DISA said.
It added that all future initial release begins a 90-day spiral approach to deploying new capabilities, with the next major release scheduled for the second quarter of fiscal 2014, which is expected to include an office capability package to enable editing of Microsoft Word documents and other MS Office items.
