"To establish good governance and ensure effective use of Resources in MINDEF and the SAF for the defence of Singapore"

We

• Determine policies of governance; develop systems; provide advice and expertise is finance, human resource and professional services
   
• Take a strategic perspective and set best practices
   
• Do these to enable MINDEF and the SAF to achieve their mission

"To Be The Leader in Defence Management"

• To be the Leader in Defence Management means DMG must excel and set the benchmark in everything and anything that constitutes our core business areas
   
• We have to constantly pit ourselves against the best in any related function from any military and/or appropriate private or public organisation
   
• We have to start from being leaders in our individual work. It is the coming together of individual work done at all levels that determine the success or failure of defence management
   
• MINDEF/SAF's success is a reflection of DMG's success. To achieve our Vision, we want DMG to be automatically recognised as one of the key competitive advantage that significantly contributed to our stakeholders' success
   
• To know that we have realised our Vision, we must be widely recognised for our strengths in our core business areas, and achieve a high value-added brand name in our own right, internal and external to MINDEF/SAF