Strategic Alignment

Integrated workforce enablement: Staging Grounds provides the sovereign digital layer linking Defence, APS, and industry talent — delivering the NDS vision of an integrated and focused force.

People as capability: Structured profiles and analytics transform workforce data into measurable readiness intelligence.

Readiness and mobilisation: Clearance, domain, and availability filters identify surge and Reserve capacity, strengthening readiness.

Reform Agenda compliance: Staging Grounds embodies the bold, innovative, modernised, data-driven workforce system envisioned in the NDS Reform Agenda.

Sovereign control: Australian-hosted and aligned with the ASD Essential Eight, it safeguards sovereign workforce and data security.

Capability linkage: Dashboards can align workforce supply with capability delivery and investment priorities across the Integrated Investment Program.

Expanded inflow: Staging Grounds supports Defence’s workforce growth targets by enabling Reserve, lateral, mid-career and diverse entry pathways.

Retention and progression: Real-time analytics identify workforce risks and enable targeted retention initiatives.

Skill alignment: The capability catalogue maps ADF, APS, and industry competencies to create a unified view of transferable skills.

Performance measurement: Dashboards can provide visibility of inflow, retention, and workforce distribution against Defence’s strategic tasks.

Cross-sector visibility: Secure, consent-based data sharing strengthens Defence–industry collaboration and mobility.

Reserve visibility: Staging Grounds identifies and tracks Reserve-eligible and inactive personnel for reactivation.

Data-driven re-engagement: Supports targeted Reserve recruitment and reactivation campaigns aligned to operational needs.

Workforce integration: Provides unified visibility of active and latent Reserve capacity to strengthen total-force integration.

Readiness reporting: Dashboards present Reserve availability, skills, and readiness by domain and service category.

Industry partnership: Enables secure collaboration with industry employers supporting Reserve participation and surge capacity.

Retention and redeployment: Staging Grounds enables Defence to monitor workforce separation drivers and redeploy non-deployable members into meaningful roles.

Recognition and transition: Generates skills and experience profiles for separating members to improve post-service employment outcomes.

APS pathways: Connects those profiles with APS, government, and industry roles, strengthening the transition pipeline.

Data and accountability: Provides Defence and Government with data to monitor implementation of recommendations on retention, recognition, and wellbeing.

Whole-of-system visibility: Supports cross-agency understanding of workforce health, risk, and transition outcomes.

Skill recognition: Staging Grounds captures military experience into transferable competencies recognised across government and industry.

Employment pathways: Links veterans to APS and industry roles through searchable profiles.

Early planning: Allows members to build transition profiles before discharge, supporting proactive transition preparation.

Measurement and evaluation: Provides analytics to track employment, retention, and wellbeing outcomes across the veteran population.

Sovereign workforce visibility: Staging Grounds connects Defence, APS, and accredited industry partners through a unified workforce data layer.

Workforce resilience: Identifies cleared, skilled professionals to support priority programs.

Industrial capability: Strengthens Defence–industry collaboration by enabling secure, consent-based workforce access for critical projects.

Trusted partnerships: Reinforces sovereign data control and compliance within industry partnerships.

Capability sustainment: Provides analytics linking industry workforce growth and skills to capability delivery timelines.