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Accenture Defense Technology Vision 2015

Five trends will stretch the digital boundaries of defense

Overview

This year, the Accenture Technology Vision 2015 explores how some leaders are flexing their digital muscle in new ways to improve operations and processes, and to form new connections with employees and customers. The defense industry is no exception. We explore five technology trends that show how defense is stretching its digital boundaries.

Background

As part of the Accenture Technology Vision 2015, Accenture surveyed 2,000 business and industry executives, including 162 public service leaders, across nine countries to gather insights into the adoption of emerging technologies. The data showed that 74 percent of those in public service agree that industry boundaries will dramatically blur as platforms reshape industries into interconnected ecosystems. This blurring may affect defense from a collaboration perspective, but also by introducing potential threats.

Accenture Technology Vision 2015; http://techtrends.accenture.com/us-en/it-technology-trends-2015.html

Five Digital Trends

  1. Internet of Me: Individual Situational Awareness - It’s an era in which every experience is becoming a digital experience as ordinary “things” become intelligent devices. The demand of the next-generation IT systems in defense will be to integrate the individual and their mission with a personalized and individual situational awareness, driving resourced informed decision making at all levels of command.

  2. Outcome Economy: Intelligent Hardware for the Outcome Mission - Intelligent hardware solutions used in defense can improve supply chain efficiency, which ultimately improves readiness and safety.

  1. Platform Revolution: Defense Ecosystems - Defense organizations want to revolutionize, standardize, consolidate and simplify platforms and upgrade to latest technology so they can best use all data produced.

  2. Intelligent Enterprise: Command and Control above the Weapons Systems - The next level of operational excellence and the next generation of software services will emerge from the latest gains in software intelligence. The defense industry is using intelligent technology to minimize human casualties.

  3. Workforce Reimagined: Collaboration at the Intersection of Humans and Machines - In the defense world where budgets are going down and the cost of equipment is going up, there is ripe potential for robotics to take on challenging physical tasks and perform them more efficiently or safely.

Explore the Five Trends

Accenture Defense Technology Vision 2015 Infographic

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Accenture Defense Five trends will stretch the digital boundaries of defense Infographic

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Keeping up with the Curve

Digital disruption is accelerating exponentially, so businesses and governments alike must quickly decide how to use digital to their advantage. The potential uses for digital in defense are immense, so the industry must proactively maximize the latest technology to improve support functions. As the defense industry stretches its digital boundaries in the coming years, it will reveal new opportunities for using digital in revolutionary ways to deliver public service for the future.

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