Army Headquarters has agreed on a contract worth over £5 million with Civica for support in strengthening its digital capabilities.
They are establishing core teams for two workstreams to run until March 2026. The first involves a team of six including architects for data, security, business, information, applications and SMEs to be embedded with Army HQ with the primary objective of setting up the Civica Enterprise Architecture Support Programme (EASP) core team one.
They will initiate a sprint to define the architecture principles, governance model and roadmap, providing a foundation for future initiatives.
The second involves core team two of six additional multi-skilled members to work on specified sprints to deliver the EASP architecture principles, a governance model, roadmap and other tasks identified by the Information Data Authority. This will use best practice from various Ministry of Defence programmes.
Transformation
Chris Griffin, chief information architect at the DEP HD Information Design Authority, said: “Army Headquarters’ Directorate of Information is delighted Civica have come on board to join our architecture function as the enterprise architecture support partner to assist in our mission to digitally transform the British Army.
“This contract represents a significant investment in enhancing our Architecture Service Operating Model, driving architecture exploitation and coherence across the organisation, enabling us to better deliver capability and exploitation of data and technology supporting our personnel and operational intent.”
Army HQ has previously worked with Civica on Project THEIA, an initiative aimed at digitising information and leveraging digital technologies to improve operation and business decision making processes. As part of this, Civica implemented the Army Command Standing Order 18/08 and the Data Governance and Coherence Directive.
