Defence Digital
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Part of the Cyber & Specialist Operations Command.
People
Defence Digital had, in 2024, a team of around 2,500 personnel, which includes a mixture of military staff, civil servants, and contractors.
- Defence Digital is responsible for providing digital and technology capabilities to our Armed Forces. With an annual budget of over £2 billion and a diverse team of 2,500 colleagues, Defence Digital operates at scale to make our Armed Forces one of the most technologically advanced in the world. Led by the Chief Information Officer, Charlie Forte, the Defence Digital organisation is responsible for ensuring that effective D&IT is put into the hands of the military and business front line. What we do and how we do it is guided by the Digital Strategy for Defence. [1]
More detailed reports from late 2022 specified a figure of around 3,090 workers, of whom 570 were contractors in a National Audit Office document.[2]
Purpose
An official notice states:
- Led by the Chief Information Officer (CIO), Charlie Forte, the Defence Digital organisation is responsible for making sure that effective digital and information technology (D&IT) is put into the hands of the military and business front line. It is guided by the Digital Strategy for Defence.
- Some of the areas within its remit include:
- leading on defensive cyber strategy, capability development and policy
- supplying IT to 200,000 users across defence
- supporting global military operations
- improving innovation and digital information exploitation across defence
- integrating strategy, planning and performance management
- supporting over 2,000 defence sites across UK and globally.
- Defence Digital brought together and replaced a number of organisations, including Information Systems and Services (ISS) in 2019. The Defence Digital organisation has an annual budget of over £2 billion and a team of around 2,400 personnel including military, civil servants and contractors.[3]