Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton said that DISA must work to deliver "a fully integrated system-of-systems that solves a meaningful problem for the commander and his warfighter requirements."

Under the agreement, HPE will deploy a secure private cloud environment to DISA's data centers to streamline operations and reduce costs.

The agency is interested in industry's offerings for AI tools, streamlined database systems and other emerging data management capabilities.

DISA's Thunderdome solution hit all 152 of the Defense Department's capability outcomes and has achieved advanced levels of zero trust, according to a senior official.

The platform will be deployed in the coming months at Indo-Pacom via DISA's Joint Operational Edge cloud environment.

The Defense Information Systems Agency is taking a more comprehensive approach to analyzing AI capabilities and their potential use cases.