• All News
• CeBIT
• Technology
• Business
• Government
• eHealth

Defence seeks strategic balance

11 Nov 2009

The Minister for Defence, Senator John Faulkner, has released the Defence Department’s 2009 Defence Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Strategy, aiming to balance Gershon reforms with the need to harness ICT for national security.

The strategy white paper has forecast spending of$940 million on ICT over the next four years, while shaving $1.9 billion in costs over the next decade and savings of $250 million a year after that.

It will create an ICT environment  to “support Defence war fighting and business reform objectives through to 2030”.

This environment would be on a set of common standards available through a centralised network structure with access to a mix of fixed locations and mobile deployments using wireless connectivity where appropriate.

“Deployed commanders and decision makers will have a single view of the battle space through a Common Operating Picture accessing a wide range of data from sensors and sources,” the paper said.

Senator Faulkner said the Strategy would strengthen the relationship between Defence’s strategic objectives and its ICT capabilities.

“Through enhanced strategic planning processes and transparent portfolio-based resource allocation, the ICT Strategy will improve Defence’s ability to conduct forward ICT capability planning,” Senator Faulkner said on the Defence blog.

“The Defence ICT Strategy is also consistent with the recommendations of the Gershon Review and elements of the Strategy were included in the 2009 Defence White paper.”

Also consistent with the Gershon recommendations, Senator Faulkner said the Senator Faulkner said Defence would adopt a whole-of-department approach to procurement.

“There will be a whole-of-portfolio approach to considering ICT investments and planning, increasing efficiency and streamlining processes,” Senator Faulkner senator.

Government was also seeking to improve the publicly-available information relating to the future direction of Defence ICT, he said, and added that Defence would conduct annual reviews of the new Strategy.

Learn more about online security at the CeBIT Security World Exhibition.

Learn more about public sector ICT solutions at CeBIT’s Government Technology Expo.

Learn more about enterprise and business solutions at CeBIT’s Business Process Management Expo.

Page Tags

• Sir Peter Gershon
• John Faulkner
• ITsecurity
• Gershon Report
• enterprise technology
• desktop computing
• Department of Defence
• Defence ICT
• Defence
• data security

Recent Business News

• 

  Oracle Acquires SOA Specialist AmberPoint

  9 Feb 2010 After its recent purchass of Sun Microsystems, enterprise software company Oracle has announced it will also buy AmberPoint, a specialist in Service Orientated Architecture (SOA). Oracle expects to close the acquisition of the Californian-based AmberPoint by mid this year. The deal was for an undisclosed sum. AmberPoint’s software works to assist... read more

• 

  Symantec and Fujitsu Unite Server and Data Centre Systems

  4 Feb 2010 Symantec and Fujitsu have expanded their strategic global partnership by providing joint offerings in data protection, storage management and information security. Fujitsu’s Eternus storage systems and Primergy Servers will be combined with Symantec’s data and storage management software products, including NetBackup, Backup Exec and Endpoint... read more

• 

  Pepsi Refreshes Global Offices With Cisco TelePresence Deal

  3 Feb 2010 PepsiCo will roll out Cisco TelePresence systems in major offices around the world, allowing the snacks and drinks giant to work more closely with leading distributors and retailers. The deal will allow PepsiCo to cut travel costs and improve collaboration worldwide. It will supplement an existing managed network contract the company already has with BT... read more

• 

  US Company set to cash in on rising e-Discovery costs

  2 Feb 2010 The ever-increasing sums of money going into high-end litigation and investigations in Australia may be headed overseas, as American firm, FTI Consulting invest millions of dollars in a local data centre to store and process hundreds of terabytes of e-discovery information. Located in Mascot in Sydney’s southeastern suburbs, the data centre will... read more

• 

  Packaging Manufacturer prepares for the NBN with Virtual Server Farm

  1 Feb 2010 Aperio has lead the pack in the move to virtualized network solutions, outsourcing its server infrastructure to managed services provider Interactive’s virtual server farm. The venture has allowed the packaging manufacturer to side-step the expenses of installing high-speed links in its Chester Hill-based data centre. Aperio’s 13 virtual... read more