Defence Information Infrastructure: Conclusions

1. Implementation of the DII Programme is running 18 months late against the latest completion date estimated at contract signature, and a further increase in the rate of rollout of terminals is necessary even to meet the Departments new deadlines.>> 2. The longer it takes to complete the implementation of DII, the greater the risk that one or more of the Departments legacy systems will fail.>> 3. To date, users of DII have expressed low levels of satisfaction with the new system, despite the major enhancement to functionality that the Department believes DII to be delivering.>> 4. The first military unit is to receive the deployable version of DII at the start of 2009, a deadline that cannot easily be moved because it uses planned periods of unit military training to induct personnel in the use of the DII system.>> 5. The Department has more than half of the Programme left to deliver but has already spent 334 million of the 528 million risk funding with which it was provided.>> 6. The Department has secured sufficient funding to deliver 140,000 of the Programmes requirement of 150,000 terminals. It needs to find savings through more efficient use of funding to deliver the vision of creating a single information infrastructure.>> 7. On the basis of totally inadequate research, the DII Programme made a major miscalculation about the condition of the buildings into which the new system would be installed, with serious consequences for the delivery of the Programme to time.>> 8. The Department did not conduct a pilot before commencing full implementation, even though the DII Programme was complex and the timetable ambitious.