On 28 November 2025, the Assistant Minister for Defence of Australia, the Hon Peter Khalil MP, launched the updated Defence Digital Strategy and Roadmap 2025.

Highlighted in the Defence Strategic Review 2023 and subsequent 2024 National Defence Strategy (NDS) is the critical role that digital technology plays in defending Australia and its national interests.

Informed by the NDS and 2024 Integrated Investment Program, the strategy and roadmap, including the Defence Cloud Strategy on a page and Program Hornet deliverables, define Defence’s approach to deliver a secure, integrated and scalable digital environment able to fight and win in the digital age.

The roadmap represents Defence’s 9 dimensions of information and communication technology capability focus areas over the next 3 years, with the delivery of digital effects underpinned by the strategy’s 3 core priorities:

• Best-in-class Australian Public Service/Australian Defence Force workforce.
• Best-in-class global platforms.
• Best-in-class sovereign capabilities.