The Ministry of Defence (MoD) must transform itself to successfully execute its digital strategy, according to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). A report by the committee said that the department is “not well setup to implement digital change at pace and scale” and that change is needed. The MoD published its 10-year digital strategy in June 2021, aiming to invest an additional £1.6bn in digital , including establishing a “digital foundry”, a federated ecosystem of digital innovators and developers, and a defence-specific artificial intelligence (AI) centre. The strategy also aims to place a digital backbone at the heart of its approach, which will be the enabler for digital transformation. However, as a National Audit Office (NAO) report highlighted in October 2022, the department has yet to come up with a delivery plan for the strategy. The PAC report said that while the department is now working on a delivery plan, the committee is not optimistic that the strategy will succeed. “Despite the urgency and ambition of its digital strategy, the department does not yet have a delivery plan to measure and track progress. The department’s digital strategy sets out how it wants to share and exploit data effectively for […]
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