Identifying the ICT’s mega trends in defense industries’ foresight to achieving Islamic-Persian model of development

In the era of change, uncertainty and instability, continuous improvement of Iran’s defense power is necessary and needs continuous attempt for future architecture. Although this attempt is full of risks, but the acceptance of this risk is better than only seeing the future changes. ICT megatrends are a most important effective area on defense industry future. On the other hand, after announcing the macro policies of defensive and safety policies. Analyzing and formulating the future scenarios is attainable. This research is to identifying the ICT megatrends that are important for defense industry foresight to achieving Islamic-Persian model of development. This research uses a mixed method. Result showed that for defense industry foresight, ICT megatrends included information security management, social networks, communication infrastructures, innovation networks on IT context, artificial intelligence, internet of things and data centers and data bases should be considered.