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Caroline Bean
Director, Portfolio Acquisition Executive Command, Control, Communications Enterprise
Defense Information Systems Agency


Caroline Bean serves as the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Director of Portfolio Acquisitions Executive Command, Control, Communications Enterprise where she oversees a $600 million portfolio responsible for the planning, acquisition, and execution of information technology services for the Department of War. Her portfolio of more than 65 programs encompasses business systems, DOW-wide enterprise collaboration services, command and control, mobility, and enterprise voice and video services. Bean joined federal service in 2002 as a student intern at DISA’s System Support Office in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. After a two-year assignment, she joined DISA’s Net-Centric Enterprise Services, an Acquisition Category I program. She quickly rose through the DISA ranks, holding a variety of program management roles focused on the development and sustainment of mission-critical enterprise services and the adoption of cloud-based solutions. Prior to her senior appointment, Bean served as the Program Director for the Defense Enterprise Office Solution, managing a portfolio in excess of $140 million. In this role, she was responsible for the integration and deployment of cloud-based enterprise software solutions for the Department of Defense, successfully implementing the enduring enterprise collaboration capability. Her portfolio included DISA’s enterprise software as a service cloud offering, DEOS, as well as the newly deployed commercially hosted collaboration suite, DoD365-Joint, that will service all DOW agencies, field activities and combatant commands. Throughout her DISA career, Bean has been a proven leader, building coalitions with a significant focus on delivery. She served as the program manager for user-facing services such as Enterprise File Delivery, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Messaging, White Pages and Data Quality. Bean also served as the program manager for the first ever on-premises cloud environment, milCloud 1.0 as well as DISA’s first fit-for-cloud offering, milCloud 2.0. In this role she directed the development and sustainment of mission critical enterprise services, leading the migration of on-premises legacy applications to the cloud, and paving the way for the implementation of cloud-based solutions within the DOW. Bean has a bachelor’s in computer science from Messiah College in Pennsylvania.

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