The General Manager Organisational Support (GMOS) leads, manages and aligns a range of NZDF functions that both enable and support the delivery of military capability. A key purpose of the GMOS position is to enhance overall NZDF organisational capability through the implementation of more effective management systems and processes.
The Organisational Support Branch includes:
Executive Leadership Team Support
The Chief of Staff is responsible for the coordination of support to the Executive Leadership Team by:
- providing staff and secretariat support to CDF and VCDF and managing documentation and information flow within the OCDF
- overseeing the preparation of draft responses to correspondence and parliamentary questions addressed to the Minister of Defence, and written submissions to Parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defence Select Committee, and the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee
- through the CDF, resolving with the Ombudsmen complaints about Defence Force responses to requests for information made under the Official Information Act
Defence Communications Group
The Director Defence Communications is responsible for leading the NZDF’s information and public relations staffs, with an emphasis on maintaining public trust and confidence in the role of New Zealand Defence Force.
The Director’s accountabilities include:
- provision of effective public relations advice to CDF, the Services and HQ JFNZ
- developing and maintaining integrated public affairs and communications strategies aligned with the strategic direction for defence
- ensuring that risks to the image of Defence are identified and correctly managed in an active and transparent manner.
Directorate of Legal Services
The Director-General Defence Legal Services (DG DLS) is responsible to CDF and to GMOS for the provision of legal services in relation to the NZDF. Particular responsibilities include formulating policy on legal issues affecting the NZDF, dissemination of law affecting the NZDF; managing the conduct of litigation involving the NZDF; professional direction and development of NZDF legal officers; and administrative support to the Judge Advocate General and the appointed judges of the Courts Martial Appeal Court.
Directorate of Services
The Director Services is responsible for:
- compilation, management and revision of the overall HQ NZDF budget
- corporate services within HQ NZDF, including HQ support services, civilian personnel, budget administration, and the NZDF Library
Communications and Information Systems Branch
The head of the Communication and Information Systems (CIS) Branch is the Chief Information Officer (CIO). The CIO is responsible for:
- ensuring that the CIS organisation maximises the NZDF’s returns from current and future investment in information technology (IT)
- prioritising and coordinating CIS functions between and within the Services
- improving CIS governance and management throughout the NZDF by aligning structures, plans, roles, responsibilities and accountabilities so as to achieve a single unified IT environment that:
- supports Service, joint and combined operations
- facilitates effective and secure information flows through fully interoperable CIS systems across Service and national boundaries
- meets the NZDF’s operational and business needs
- marrying technical and behavioural values that ensure there is a robust IT partnership with core NZDF business groups
- evaluating all IT decisions as they affect NZDF
Directorate of Joint Command, Control, Communications and Information Systems
The responsibilities of the Director Joint Command, Control, Communications and Information Systems include:
- developing a cohesive and coherent NZDF information environment through the development of information management strategies, policies and plans
- overview and configuration control of the Defence Communications Unit.
Joint Logistics and Support Organisation (JLSO)
Commander JLSO (COM JLSO) is charged with delivering 15 functionally-based, non-core and mostly non-deployable corporate services to the Services, camps and bases of the NZDF. The JLSO is charged with delivering goods and services more effectively than is possible within a traditional fully-decentralised framework, by controlling operations centrally, but delivering services where they are required. The JLSO hub is headquartered at Trentham, and there is a JLSO presence at each NZDF camp/base to ensure close contact between NZDF “customers” and the service delivery elements of JLSO.
Programme and Change Management Office
The Director Programme and Change Management is responsible to GMOS for managing, at a programme level, all programmes and projects assigned by CDF or the ELT. Generally, these are significant programmes and projects with wide application that have no natural or sole business “owner” within the NZDF and which cannot be managed within the standing structure without significant risk of failure.
Defence Technology Agency
Defence science and technology activity is centered at the Defence Technology Agency (DTA) located at the Devonport Naval Base, Auckland within the shore establishment, HMNZS Philomel. DTA is an NZDF agency under the management direction of GMOS and is administered by the Navy. The Director of DTA is the Chief Military Scientist, who coordinates and implements the annual Defence Science Programme.
DTA provides research and development facilities to HQ NZDF, the three Services and the MoD. DTA's activities are supported by the hydrographic survey ship HMNZS Resolution and other NZDF units. Many DTA projects form part of New Zealand’s contribution to The Technical Cooperation Programme (TTCP), in which New Zealand participates with Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The DTA also operates under the bilateral memorandum with Australia on cooperation in defence science.
Defence Health Directorate
Defence Health Services provide quality healthcare to regular force personnel of the NZDF.
The Directorate of Defence Health is responsible for health service governance covering health policy development, clinical oversight, training standard management and legislative compliance of health service delivery in the NZDF.