Recommendation 13

One area where these resourcing challenges have become apparent is in Defence Digital’s track record of delivering major digital programmes. These are the Department’s most complex and transformational programmes, many of which are needed to replace older legacy systems, and which it needs to get right if its strategy is to succeed.40 However, the Infrastructure and Project Authority’s (IPA’s) most recent reporting from March 2022 showed that, of the five programmes which report publicly, three of the Department’s major programmes have significant issues (‘amber’) and two are unachievable (‘red’).41