Department of Defense C4ISR spending will reach $39.5 billion in 2016, according to a Frost & Sullivan market forecast. This reflects an 8.8 percent increase over 2015, and includes electronic warfare, information operations and multipurpose technologies.
C4ISR spending will continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 1.4 percent from 2014 to 2020, according to the forecast. Despite some reduced spending due to force reductions, “the application of commercial off-the-shelf based computing, storage, security, networking and collaboration tools will accelerate over time,” the report said. “As cloud and big data technologies will be required to complement the adoption of COTS-based smart phones, tablets, wireless networks and productivity applications of all kinds, the DoD’s appetite for cloud computing virtualized ‘as a service’ enterprise networks will grow dramatically, despite lingering security concerns.”
