Friday, November 19, 2021
What is it?
The Army Digital Transformation Strategy (ADTS) is the Army’s strategy to achieve digital transformation across Army technologies, processes and people. The strategy provides an overarching framework to achieve a digital Army of 2028 empowered to deliver overmatch through joint multi-domain operations (MDO).
The ADTS will drive digital transformation, innovation, and reform through strategy, policy, governance, oversight and rapid capabilities to establish an operational MDO force.
What are the current and past efforts of the Army?
The Army is pursuing a wide range of modernization and digital transformation efforts, such as:
What continued efforts does the Army have planned?
The ADTS advances the Army Modernization Strategy for Waypoint 2028 and Aimpoint 2035. This strategy fully aligns with wider Army and DoD modernization strategies which share the vision of a more ready, lethal and modern force by 2028. The following ADTS objectives, as aligned with the Army’s strategic pillars, indicate the Army’s future efforts:
Why is this important to the Army?
The rapid evolution of technology coupled with adversarial threats creates new and complex challenges to maintaining overmatch in multi-domain operations. Digital transformation, as highlighted by the Army Modernization Strategy, is key to ensuring that the Army becomes a modern, lethal and ready force that can dominate in these complex environments.
ADTS is the overarching framework that sets the vision to implement strategic digital transformation initiatives to win decisively.
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“Digital is all about a change in mindset … we’re moving from the industrial age to the digital age. What this means now is pivoting toward data as a strategic asset for decision making.”
— Dr. Raj Iyer, U.S. Army Chief Information officer