Digitalisation in Defence: Command, Control and Situational Awareness (C2SA)
By NORTAC DefenceThe COVID-19 pandemic has had a destabilising impact on geopolitics, which has increased both focus and spending on national defence. Global defence spending in 2020 reached was just under $ 2 trillion, an increase of 2.6% year-on-year from 2019, despite the global gross domestic product (GDP) decline of 3.4%.
Moreover, the pandemic accelerated digitalisation in the military domain, as it did in the commercial sector, which is evident from the many military organizations currently considering or adopting digital technologies.