Lt Gen Ronnie D. Hawkins, Jr.
DISA Director

....to Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronnie D. Hawkins, Jr., during a ceremony at the agency’s headquarters complex. Pollett has been the DISA Director since December 2008. He is retiring after serving in the Department of Defense for more than 37 years. Under his leadership, the agency has accomplished many operational and logistical milestones, including supporting critical defense operations in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, responding to natural disasters in Haiti and Japan, and providing communications to DoD warfighters around the world. At the same time, Pollett led the agency’s partnership with the U.S. Army to develop and implement enterprise services, and consolidated several DISA Headquarters locations from the Northern Virginia area to the new DISA campus here at Fort Meade, Maryland. Pollett also led development of the DISA Campaign Plan, which established a two-year framework for the organization’s future. The Campaign Plan focuses agency planning and guides the allocation of resources, outlines the design of DISA’s organizational structure, and the execution of its priorities - all of which are inextricably linked.

Hawkins returns to DISA from Washington, D.C., where he was the Deputy Director Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems (C4), Joint Staff, the Pentagon. He was the Vice Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency from September 2009 - July 2011.