The IM&T directorate was established in response to an immediate need for a "cohesive, strategic approach" to IT management across OSD, the Pentagon says.
“I think that we have struggled for a very long time on the Mission Partner Environment,” Danielle Metz, chief IT strategist for the office of the secretary of defense, said. “The combatant commanders have been screaming for the need to be able to seamlessly… collaborate not only internally with themselves, but across the mission partners.