The Defence Gateway controls access to a cloud hosted environment for a number of websites, applications and mobile applications. It has been developed to provide simple and secure access to these resources so that any member of defence can securely collaborate, communicate and share information over the internet from any device. The DGW draws on the principles and technologies the Cabinet Office (CO) commends in its ICT Strategy. Its websites and applications are hosted on a private cloud delivered and supported under contract. This represents a step change in the method of procuring and delivering a defence wide ICT environment and does so with the advantages of global availability free from the constraints of dedicated networks and hardware. The DGW is provided as a service for defence by Web Exploitation (Web Ex), Army information Services (AIS), Army HQ. It is available for hosting and providing access to websites and applications as well as for the exploitation of these resources.
