The Department of Defence is set to embark on fewer “concurrent complex, disruptive and expensive” IT transformations and rely more heavily on smaller, iterative IT capabilities in a shake-up of its investment planning processes. As a review of its decade-old IT operating model continues, the department has revealed plans to introduce a “rolling forward work program” to ensure its systems remain up-to-date and secure.
The “ICT Capability Assurance Program”, first disclosed in the Force Structure Plan 2020 earlier this month, will see the chief information officer group (CIOG) spearhead a series of reforms to better respond to technology changes.
It will see to it that the full gamut of existing Defence IT capabilities are maintained, including by ensuring systems and applications are continuously updated and patched.
CIOG currently maintains approximately 134,000 workstations, 8400 servers and 3000 applications spread across three primary data centres....MORE
