Business support
Providing highly skilled, service-driven and security-cleared staffing for DXC's customers.
DXC Veterans Program
Enabling and supporting veterans to thrive while offering workplaces IT experts to fill skills gaps
About the program
Veterans are well-trained, highly skilled and motivated. Yet one in three struggle to find post-service employment.
At DXC, we know how valuable veterans’ skills are to the IT industry.
Our Veterans Program attracts, upskills and supports veterans who are leaving the Australian Defence Force and want to secure viable and rewarding long-term careers in IT.
As a result, DXC customers and partners are given access highly skilled, outcomes-driven, security cleared team members.
Program Benefits
Culture, diversity and inclusion
Providing an inclusive and culturally aware environment for veterans and their peer, nurturing diverse and innovative thinking.
Transition and training
Creating education and career pathways, and mentoring and networking opportunities for veterans.
Technology partnerships
As a leading Fortune 500 technology services company with a global ecosystem alliances with technology partners, veterans are provided with a broad education pathways and progression opportunities.
Wellbeing support
Supporting veterans' mental and physical wellbeing through psychological and physiological programs, and workplace and community social networks.
Commitment to defence personnel
We have a longstanding 45+ year partnership with the defence industry and the program is led by Professor Neil Curtis, senior security consultant at DXC and a former military and police officer.
Program impact
Fill IT skills gaps
Organisations fill IT skill gaps and gain highly skilled and mission-focused team members
Job security
Meaningful employment and job security for veterans
Inclusive IT industry
Shared commitment to a socially responsible IT industry
40+
veterans undergoing various IT training supported by DXC Technology and its partners
20
intern positions available within DXC Cybersecurity Practice across 2022
Success Stories
Digital thread helps Lockheed Martin Aeronautics modernise aircraft manufacturing
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics uses digital thread to lower costs and increase speed for its next-generation manufacturing execution system.
Mobile On-Board Training System supporting the Royal Australian Navy
Simulated combat environment with realistic exercises enables authentic and intense training that cannot be easily or cost effectively replicated in the real world.
RSL DefenceCare improves veteran support services with Microsoft Dynamics 365
Integrated, cloud-based solution enables RSL DefenceCare access to real-time data, obtain meaningful insights on service outcomes to make better decisions when helping customers.
Our collaborators
Helping Heroes
Helping Heroes is a national organisation, exclusively providing rehabilitation, injury management and assessment services to our Veteran community.
Palo Alto
Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, continually delivers innovation to enable secure digital transformation.
Splunk
The Splunk platform removes the barriers between data and action, empowering observability, IT and security teams to ensure their organizations are secure, resilient and innovative.
Trend Micro
Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information.
University of Southern Queensland
University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) is a research-intensive regional university that provides high-quality flexible degree programs and produces Australia’s highest paid graduates.
RSL
The Returned & Services League of Australia (RSL Australia) was formed in 1916 in response to the lack of a unified approach to the organisation of repatriation facilities and medical services for those returning from the Great War.
Fortinet
Fortinet secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network—today and into the future.
VMware
VMware, a global leader in cloud, security, storage and network virtualization, as well as desktop and mobility management, makes businesses more agile. For over 15 years, DXC has developed IT solutions that leverage VMware technologies to modernize data centers and integrate public clouds, modernize apps, empower the digital workspace and transform security.
Tenable
Tenable transforms security technology for the business needs of tomorrow through comprehensive solutions that provide continuous visibility and critical context, enabling decisive actions to protect organisations.
News and insights
The future of AI in the aerospace industry
New importance is being placed on building systems that bring autonomous operation to the aviation industry with a roadmap for the safe and ethical dimensions of AI.
Building cyber resilience in a remote future
According to a recent Harvard Business Review report, during the pandemic, 86 percent of organisations increased their employees’ ability to work remotely.