Top trends and priorities focus on addressing global volatility through digital transformation

We met with 70 defense and intelligence leaders to understand their top priorities and how they are adapting to key trends shaping their organizations. This year, executives are sharpening their focus on:

  • Navigating geopolitical shifts and growing volatility
  • Accelerating digital transformation across operations
  • Reconfiguring supply chains for greater resilience
  • Addressing an aging workforce and talent shortages
  • Harnessing disruptive technologies to stay ahead

Increasing threats and shifting geopolitics drive the need to build greater resiliency

#1 business priority
enhancing national security and defense capabilities
69%
say the shifting world economic order, including reshoring the supply chain, has a major impact
43%
produce results from their data privacy and protection strategy for their ecosystems of partners

Digital tools and innovation reshape defense strategies amid modernization demands

  • #1 IT priority
    accelerating digital transformation and automation
  • 95%
    face medium to high legacy challenges, as modernization surges
  • 85%
    adopted AI strategies internally, either enterprise-wide or within specific functions
  • 73%
    say technology and digital acceleration has a major impact in their organization
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Workforce transformation challenges drive executives to use new tools, save costs and adopt AI

Amid challenges hiring IT talent, defense and intelligence executives are responding by adopting GenAI in HR and increasing their operational and capital investments to support workforce transformation.

85%
struggle to hire IT talent
67%
use GenAI to support human resources management
50%
plan to increase their OpEx and CapEx budgets

At CGI, we help defense and intelligence leaders digitally transform and modernize their operations to drive resiliency, efficiency and other strategic outcomes. Learn more about:

 

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