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Enterprise IT, Featured, News - Tuesday, December 20, 2011 15:05 - 2 Comments
High risk that Defence ICT will go off the rails
news The Federal Government’s chief auditor has warned that the Department of Defence’s ICT operation is teetering on the brink of a dangerous precipice, in a landmark report published this afternoon into its current ICT governance structures and projects.
The report, Oversight and Management of Defence’s Information and Communication Technology, offers a detailed window into one of Australia’s largest and most complex technology environments. Defence’s so-called Defence Information Environment (DIE) soaks up some $1.2 billion in annual expenditure and ranges over 500 sites in Australia and overseas, providing functions as diverse as weapons support and electronic counter-insurgency to more normal office functions such as word processing.
It is also, however, one of Australia’s most ageing technology environments. A succession of reports over the past half-decade has found that a number of Defence’s key support systems, as well as its most basic infrastructure, has become unwieldy and is holding the department back in terms of its ability to deliver on its goals and sometimes basic operational functionality.








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