The FY2021-2025 DSE Strategy provides a course of action for the Department to elevate, integrate, and optimize Defense Security and was published in July 2021.

By implementing this strategy, the DSE will better align security resources across the Enterprise, enhance integration and standardization, and optimize our ability to anticipate threats and vulnerabilities. With a more robust security framework, the Department will be better equipped to combat the complex, diverse, and harmful range of threats to U.S. interests and assets.

Goal 1: Elevate Defense Security across the Department, Federal Government, and Industry. 

• Objective 1.1. Empower and professionalize the security workforce to execute its mission through enhanced and standardized security education, training, and credentialing.
• Objective 1.2. Expand the perimeter of security beyond cleared industry to external partners in the uncleared defense industrial base and NSIB.
• Objective 1.3. Influence stakeholders across the Enterprise to prioritize security in​ decision-making.

Goal 2: Coordinate, policies, processes, and operations across the Enterprise and among the security disciplines and security-related functions. 

• Objective 2.1. Standardize coordination among security disciplines and security-related functions.
• Objective 2.2. Manage and centralize security information collection, reporting, analysis, and dissemination.
• Objective 2.3. Enable and facilitate the build-up of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s (DCSA) operational capabilities across all security domains.​

Goal 3: Establish an integrated capability to anticipate and respond to evolving threats with speed and innovation.

• Objective 3.1. Collect, assess, and prioritize fiscal priorities for the Enterprise to better anticipate annual budget cycles.
• Objective 3.2. Utilize governance processes to oversee and manage the implementation of the DSE Strategy.
• ​Objective 3.3. Conduct scientific research to identify and leverage innovative approaches to security programs and processes.