Delivering Defence Digital Transformation: Let’s Get Ambitious

To enable rapid and efficient transformation, it’s crucial to remove barriers and overcome challenges inhibiting capability development and deployment. This requires focusing on quantifiable, measurable outcomes, and greater collaboration between industry and defence to ensure sustainable change.

Invest in the right priorities

• Cloud-first approach: Embrace cloud technologies for their security, agility, and interoperability benefits, while respecting sovereignty requirements as necessary.
• Address legacy systems: Overcome fragmented, outdated technologies that hinder digital transformation in defence by addressing legacy systems through new commercial approaches, improving inventory visibility, adopting risk management approaches and deployment of compensating controls.
• Enhance military digital resilience: As reliance on digital technology increases, boost digital resilience to absorb potential shocks and be ready to swiftly restore critical services.
• Implement a digital backbone: Where appropriate, deploy advanced networking solutions, to improve cross domain data sharing, decision making and interoperability.

https://blogs.cisco.com/gov/defence-digital-transformation-europe