Disruptive Technologies for Defence Transformation

Abstract

Defence agencies worldwide are adopting automation, cloud, artificial intelligence, and data analytics to form the IT backbone of their modernisation initiatives across weapon systems, personnel, and strategy. However, agencies are over-allocating resources towards maintaining and trying to modernise their existing legacy infrastructure. This is failing to seize the opportunity facing them. Complex and inflexible legacy software needs to be replaced to unify siloed data and exploit the efficiencies innovative technology like automation with low-code can offer. Looking specifically at the U.S. Department of Defence, its agencies are transforming their IT environment with flexible and rapid next generation low-code technologies that increase efficiencies and build agile, adaptive platforms that can rapidly adjust to changing requirements at low cost. This frees internal processes to be routinely optimised for performance, rather than being compromised and restricted by inflexible hosting technology. Mind-sets and expectations need to change.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 29, 2022
Accession Number
AD1181980

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automation
  • Big Data
  • Contracts
  • Data Analysis
  • Defense Planning
  • Department Of Defense
  • Efficiency
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligent Automation
  • Marine Corps
  • National Governments
  • Platforms
  • Procurement
  • United States
  • United States Strategic Command

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy