The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has released a new ICT strategy as part of the ministries move to adopt strategies spearheaded by other government departments and develop a unified public sector approach to ICT.

The new strategy is expected focus on delivering a wider reach of services and is partially based on the Defence Information Infrastructure programme which is focused on improving efficiencies.

The new strategy will deliver improved business and operational processes while looking at reducing the overall ICT spend as the government seek to create savings of 25 per cent by 2015.

The new strategy is also designed to improve government information oversight by creating an information board allowing improved management and analytics.