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Accenture Defense Technology Vision 2015
Five Trends Will Stretch the Digital Boundaries of Defense
Internet of Me: Individual Situational Awareness
Accenture’s Technology Vision 20151 shares insights into the global adoption of emerging technologies—and the power that technology has to transform businesses and governments. Defense is no exception. In the era of the connected soldier, leading-edge technology can keep soldiers informed and protected, and it can improve areas critical to defense mission success: safety, e�ciency, e�ectiveness, security and cost savings.
Explore examples of how these five trends are pushing digital boundaries in defense.
Outcome Economy: Intelligent Hardware for the Outcome Mission
Intelligent Enterprise: Command and Control Above the Weapons Systems
Workforce Reimagined: Collaboration at the Intersection of Humans and MachinesDigital and physical worlds are increasingly colliding and connecting. In defense, 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 e�ciently or safely.
Platform (R)evolution: Defense EcosystemsToday’s platforms comprise well-defined architecture, governance and services and are underpinned by the latest digital tools.
Defense agencies want to upgrade platforms to the latest technology so they can best use all data produced.
Deeper levels of intelligence in hardware are bridging the last mile between the digital enterprise and the physical world.
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has become more outcome-oriented by using a solution that leverages ServiceNow, a services-management
platform, to reduce the complexity of its IT and security infrastructure.
Every experience is becoming a digital experience as ordinary things become intelligent devices.
Wearable technology can
increase situational awareness for soldiers, even making the warfighter a “sensor” that transmits data back to central command.
Virtual technology is providing increased training e�ciency for troops preparing for operations.
The U.S. Army’s Live, Virtual, Constructive- Integrating Architecture system provides training and mission rehearsal opportunities to commanders and soldiers through a
net-centric linkage that “collects, retrieves and exchanges data among Army training aids, devices, simulations and simulators (TADSS).”2
In some cases, this involves realigning the construction, operation and security of networks and systems into a joint/single information environment.
The defense industry is using intelligent technology to
minimize human
casualties
maximize situational awareness.
Today’s influx of data—plus advances in processing power, analytics and cognitive technology—is enabling greater operational excellence.
Determining how machines could best supplement operators’ analysis has clear mission-critical implications in an environment characterized by a massive and growinginflux of data.5
For more information, contact:Antti KolehmainenManaging Director, Accenture Defense Services [email protected]
Dr. Valtteri VuorisaloO�ering Development Manager, Accenture Defense Services [email protected]
Joe ChenelleSenior Managing Director, Accenture Federal [email protected]
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1. Accenture Technology Vision 2015; http://techtrends.accenture.com/us-en/it-technology-trends-2015.html
2. United States Army; “Live, Virtual, Constructive-Integrating Architecture (LVC-IA),” November 9, 2012, accessed May 8, 2015 http://www.peostri.army.mil/PRODUCTS/LVCIA/
3. U.S. Department of Defense; “Joint Information Environment;” http://dodcio.defense.gov/Initiatives/JointInformationEnvironment.aspx
4. Accenture; “Creating the right image in the intelligent city;” http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-creating-right-image-intelligent-city-summary.aspx
5. Joey Cheng, “Air Force Wants Human-Machine Teams for ISR Analysis,” Defense Systems, July 23, 2014, accessed May 8, 2015 http://defensesystems.com/Articles/2014/07/23/Air-Force-human-machine-ISR-analysis.aspx?admgarea=TC_C4ISR&Page=1
When fully realized, the solution is estimated to save over
10 million man hoursof lost productivity a year.
For example, the Joint Information Environment initiative (JIE) will help the U.S. Department of Defense
modernize how the Department’s IT networks and systems are constructed, operated and defended.3
Similarly, the city of Singapore is applying video analytics to surveillance video feeds to detect various events and generate operational alerts for six agencies.4
The U.S. Air Force issued a presolicitation for innovative research into
human-machine collaboration in analyzing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data.
Installing CCTV in unmanned areas, mounting mobile cameras on vehicles and using drones to capture surveillance video are proactively notifying defense forces of threats.
Intelligent hardware solutions used in
defense can improve supply chain e�ciency, which ultimately improves readiness and safety.
