Charles Forte’s Post

Paul, I am all for training our "young bloods" to exploit IT for MOD. However, I fear that they will be surprised and disappointed (as are increasingly large numbers of current members of MOD) at the poor quality and capability of the IT we have to use. While I submit that we can work quite well WITHIN the MOD's IT boundary, we certainly cannot with the 120,000 Industry Partners in UK alone - let alone the increasing number of partners abroad! We need up-to-date and coherent DOCTRINE (security Policy across UK Govt), we need the modern technology (EQUIPMENT (SW, MW and HW) and INFRASTRUCTURE (Cloud and Hosting)) to INTERFACE and OPERATE with ALL our Partners ASAP. This RISK, which is now an ISSUE, has only been around since DLO began to discuss INFORMATION exchange with UKCeB (Team Defence Info) in 2002 to my knowledge. I submit that the poor IT is a CONSTRAINT on and DEPENDENCY for the business BENEFITS and OPPORTUNITIES we seek to exploit. In the words of the sarcastic song: UKStratCom, "Why are we [still?] waiting?"

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They are our future so extremely important!!

Brilliant job Paul, DS4D is fundamental to Defence keeping ahead and being ever more relevant.