The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has appointed Sharon Woods to lead the J6 Endpoint Services and Global Service Center, according to a announcement on LinkedIn.
Woods, who most recently served as the director for DISA’s J9 Hosting and Compute Center (HaCC), stepped into her new role on Monday. Jeff Marshall, who served under Woods as DISA’s vice director of the HaCC, is now the acting director of that organization.
“We deliver networking and endpoint solutions at all classification levels to the Department of Defense. This is a crucial mission, connecting the Department’s globally dispersed workforce, from the Pentagon to the edge, with unified communications,” Woods wrote in the announcement post.
“Incorporating my experience with cloud technology, I hope to drive modernization and propel J6 forward as the premier communications provider to the Department,” she added.
Woods — a long-time public servant — began her career at DISA in 2018 as the executive director of the Cloud Computing Program Office (CCPO). During her time at the CCPO, Woods was part of the team that “developed an enterprise identity solution still in use today and deployed the [commercial virtual remote environment] solution during COVID-19.”
In 2021, DISA merged the CCPO with its data center organization creating the HaCC and “enabling DISA to emerge as a hybrid cloud solutions provider.”
“Stratus, Vulcan, [Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability], and upcoming DoD Olympus are just a few of the capabilities that J9 Hosting and Compute is delivering to the Department,” Woods added.
Before joining DISA, Woods was general counsel for the Defense Digital Service from 2016 to 2019. Before that, Woods served in several roles from 2008 to 2016 in the Department of the Navy’s Office of General Counsel, including as associate counsel for the program executive office for enterprise information systems, general counsel for the Department of Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization program and associate counsel for Naval Enterprise Networks, according to her LinkedIn page.
“Transitions are hard. Leaving DISA [J9 HaCC] is tough, but I am ready to take on another challenge,” Woods concluded.
