Steering information dashboard operational readiness

Ministry of Defence

The Operational Readiness Dashboard provides insight into the current operational readiness and deployability of the armed forces. Specifically, the dashboard provides insight into personnel readiness, materiel readiness and exercise readiness per unit. This dashboard runs in BI/VEST, which stands for Business Intelligence/Improved Steering Information.

Last change on 28th of November 2024, at 12:30 (CET) | Publication Standard 1.0

• Publication category: Other algorithms
• Impact assessment: DPIA
• Status: In use

General information

Theme

Organisation and business operations

Begin date

2021-07

Contact information

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/contact/informatie-rijksoverheid/e-mail-sturen

Responsible use

Goal and impact

Using dashboards to provide steering and accountability information to increase the deployability and readiness of the armed forces. The algorithm has no direct impact on civilians and companies. The dashboard completes a reproducible, verifiable and validatable creation of management information. Setting up the dashboard is the result of a recommendation by the Court of Audit, whose statutory duty it is to audit central government revenue and expenditure. The Court of Audit examines whether the central government spends public money sensibly, economically and prudently, and the dashboard enables them to perform this task better.

Considerations

The dashboard brings together data from various business management systems to quickly and efficiently gain visibility into operational readiness and deployment information. Due to the multitude of sources and data, it is not workable to do this manually, this would take too much time and capacity.

Human intervention

There is no automated decision-making. A human assesses the information in the dashboards to support any decisions to be made. Defence uses the algorithm to underpin its assessment of operational readiness.

Risk management

Privacy risks for Defence employees are reduced or prevented by various measures. For example, by pseudonymisation of personal data, logging, authorisation management and applying data minimisation. A full overview of measures is included in the DPIA.

Legal basis

1. Delivering accountability information: The Government Accountability Act 2016 (CW) requires proper accountability information in the annual report. Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Defence has a duty of care as an employer. The steering and accountability reports address the employer's duty of care. Legal obligation. Art. 2.29 Compatibility Act 2016
2. Improving insight on deployability of weapon systems, units and defence personnel to be deployed: The main tasks of Defence are set out in Article 97 of the Constitution, the Defence Civil Servants Act forms the basis for military deployability. Task of public interest

Impact assessment

Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)

Operations

Data

Pseudonymised data are used of active duty military personnel (professional and reserve), civilian personnel and non-employees such as hired personnel and trainees over the age of 18 placed with Defence. Examples of data processed are data on appointment, placement, deployment, training, sick leave and exercise. For a complete overview, see the processing register at https://www.avgregisterrijksoverheid.nl/verwerkingen/stuurinformatie-(bi-vest)-(2021). In addition to personal data, other data processed include data on procurement, maintenance, storage, equipment and inventory.

Technical design

The dashboard uses business intelligence. The underlying algorithms are simple calculation rules. The data processed in the dashboard is checked against predefined base profiles. Based on whether or not the profiles match, the dashboard rates the degree of operational readiness and deployability of certain parts of the armed forces by means of colour (green, orange, red).

External provider

Q-TC