Digital and Intelligence Service
The Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) is a planned fourth service branch of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), set to be inaugurated at the end of 2022. The DIS will focus on psychological defence, digital domain threats, cybersecurity, and military intelligence. History. The Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) was first announced on 2 March 2022 by Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen during the year's budget debate. In his speech, Ng highlighted the increase in attacks by non-state actors and resulting damage from the Russian–Ukrainian cyberwarfare to justify the necessity of a dedicated service  branch to deal with hybrid warfare. The DIS was compared with its closest existing equivalent abroad, Germany's Cyber and Information Domain Service. The DIS will comprise several groups within the Singapore Armed Forces previously established to deal with such threats, which are the C4I Community created in April 2012, Defence Cyber Organisation in March 2017, SAF C4 Command in November 2017, and the Cybersecurity Task Force in December 2020. The DIS will consolidate these organisations under one service branch dedicated to psychological defence, tackling digital domain threats, cybersecurity and military intelligence. It will be formally established at the end  of 2022. Personnel. The SAF plans to encourage male members of Cyber Youth Singapore to join the DIS, and is working with Nanyang Technological University to create an education scheme to train digital specialists. The service length of DIS personnel will be four years, which is twice the length of national service in Singapore. In addition, DIS will also recruit personnel specialising in data science, psychology, linguistics, anthropology and geography. Full-time national servicemen will also be enlisted into the DIS. Uniforms. There is no information if the DIS will have its own separate uniforms and insignia as of March  2022.