Defence has actually reorganized its ICT function, relabeling it as the Defence Digital Group (DDG) and developing 3 departments with oversight of ‘service’ and ‘military’ innovation usage, in addition to digital ability.
The restructure was very first exposed in a task ad at the start of the week which iTnews submitted concerns about.
The department did not react to particular concerns however rather made a basic statement today verifying the modification.
” The facility of the Defence Digital Group within Defence represents increased concentrate on providing ICT ability that will guarantee Defence is prepared to combat and win in the digital age,” it stated.
” The Group, formerly referred to as Chief Details Officer Group (CIOG), has actually changed to take a strategy-led method to shaping, providing and sustaining Defence’s ICT landscape in a quicker, more nimble method.”
Chief Details Officer Chris Crozier stated the restructure is lined up to suggestions in the Defence Strategic Evaluation.
The Majority Of the ICT-related parts of the evaluation appeared to have actually been edited from the general public variation.
One essential modification in the structure seems a relocation (back) to dual-domain treatment of ICT.
A trademark of the CIOG structure was that it was planned to support Defence’ s Single Details Environment (SIE) – and military and service operations collectively.
From the task ad, nevertheless, military and service ICT will now have their own departments, recommending that Defence might take apart the combined method of seeing ICT internally.
Defence is trying to find very first assistant secretaries – senior executives – to lead a military systems department and a business systems department under DDG.
On the military side, the executive will require to “provide quality incorporated ICT results straight supporting our military on the Defence trick business and facilities in assistance of Defence’s tactical instructions” and lead works under the tactical evaluation.
Business side is likewise worded however is “concentrated on the Defence PROTECTED business and facilities in assistance of Defence’s tactical instructions” and executing the evaluation suggestions.
It appears a 3rd department has actually been produced for “digital ability”, with primary innovation officer Justin Keefe revealing today on LinkedIn that he has actually taken a comparable very first assistant secretary function to lead it.
The restructure is the very first significant modification under Crozier, who was made Defence’s CIO in August.