Activities

The Team Defence Information Task Force sponsors and facilitates a number of Working Groups, each focused on a specific aspect of collaborative information sharing. Their purpose is to identify and progress issues – and to develop advice and guidance for the benefit of Team Defence. Representation includes UK Ministry of Defence (and other Government Departments where appropriate) as well as industry. Participation is open to representatives from TD-Info member organisations and others by invitation.

Communities of Practice

Addresses Industry or MOD interest in a broad topic area; 

Should be used as a vehicle to advance common understanding;

Must have a Team Defence Information Task Force Member to facilitate;  

Must have a Terms of Reference agreed by Team Defence Executive Team; 

Outputs can be used to form a whitepaper, working group or project which are subject to the approval of the Executive Team; 

Doesn’t have to produce monthly reports although they are available for the group to escalate issues to the Executive Team

Working Groups 

Discussion or defined collaborative working required on a distinct topic area e.g. DEFSTAN 00-600; 

Used to advance Industry and MOD knowledge; 

Can sponsor the creation of a whitepaper or oversee a project or programme of work once the group has matured;

Should normally last longer than 12 months (although meeting regularity can vary) otherwise a project should be considered;

Must have a MOD and Industry Chair; 

Must have an agreed TOR and report monthly.

Projects

Defined, achievable deliverable or change; 

Can be the output of a white paper;

Can be an activity sponsored by an established working group;

No longer than a year duration;

Must have an Industry and MOD Project Lead; 

Must have a 2* or 3* Sponsor and/or Industry equivalent from Team Defence Strategy Group;

Must have an approved Project Initiation Document (PID) by Team Defence Executive Team; 

Must report monthly. 

Events

Information on all sector-relevant events, run by TD-Info and other organisations.

Defence Asset Management CoP

Under the auspices of TD-Info, the DAMCoP is a standing joint MOD, Defence Industry and the Institute of Asset Management (IAM) community of practice. The IAM is the Asset Management (AM) professional body and will be represented by the IAM SW Branch. The DAMCoP will...

Team Defence Strategy Group

The Strategy Group has been established to interpret the 3* Advisory Board’s bi-annual areas of strategic focus along with outputs from the Team Defence Information Council to sponsor and approve Team Defence Information activities which align to these top-level...

TD-Info Defence Support Townhall

TD-Info are excited to announce that CDLS Andy Kyte will be hosting this months Townhall. This will be a hybrid event held virtually via MS Teams and In-person at The Engineers House, Clifton 10.00 - 15.00. Details of the agenda will be released in due...

News

News and blogs to keep you in the know. 

Multi Domain Integration (MDI) Monthly Blog – March 2023

Welcome to the second MDI Working Group Monthly Blog, a short communication document designed to bring insights and additional perspectives to the pursuit of Integration across the Defence Enterprise. Our MDI Working Group blog builds on the February Blog, continues...

AdM Hack – sign up today

The Future Capability Group (FCG) Open Innovation Laboratories (OIL) Additive Manufacture Hack will take place on the 3 & 4 April 23. We recently held a launch and network event the details of which are here: Additive Manufacturing Hack Launch and Networking 9...