Lambert admitted that Defence has had challenges in the last three years "losing touch between different areas" which isn't helped by the fact that Defence is "huge with plenty of scope."

Back in 2002, Lambert said Defence established an official Office of the CIO (Chief Information Officer), and within that area enterprise architecture was formed.

He said the defense architecture framework was defined and sold to senior management.

Despite this, Lambert said there are still no clearly defined review cycles for architecture and standards.

However, he said DoD is currently developing a standards management systems as well as further architecture advice and review.