The Australian Defence Force will seek to create its own Apple-like app store as a means to more quickly deliver applications and capabilities to service and support personnel.

The Federal Government has allocated $13 million in funding to foster projects submitted under the Department of Defence’s research and development program.

Top US defence contractor, Lockheed Martin, said that it had successfully warded off "a significant and tenacious" attack on its information systems network.

The Defence Department says it will look into whistleblower claims that thousands of security clearances have been falsified.

Defence is to overhaul the electronic access card system which controls staff access to facilities in the Canberra region amid decreasing overall performance of the security system.

Defence will shortly commence refreshing its core management information system for personnel management, personnel management key solution (PMKeyS), in an effort to better manage risk and add “significant and sustainable benefits” to the organisation.

Less than half of the annual $1.2 billion spent by Defence on its ICT is visible to its chief information officer, Greg Farr, a new report has revealed.

The Defence department has signaled a raft of changes to its approach to information technology under a new ICT reform program.