"We are in the process of developing standards management systems to replace our stock of interlinked word documents and make this available on the Web; we are developing a more usable architecture repository system and have started our guidance document development for communications strategy," Lambert said.

"Defence is moving to a point where we will see something from concept to development to make sure that people working on a project understand the structure.

"We plan to evolve the architecture framework to ensure needs are met 10 to 15 years from now."