Digital Twin
Description
A connected data representation of an entity, such as a physical asset, a process or system throughout its lifecycle
Aspiration/Vision
Available across design support chain to service providers. Data sufficient and accessible to support services e.g. Synthetic environment for support Frictionless access at appropriate authorisation An ecosystem of digital twins across the Defence estate and platforms which enable timely and useful decision, design and capability support.
First Steps/Building Blocks
Commitment to achievement of aspiration Current maturity against agreed framework, what aspects are already in use? Capability growth priorities for collective action.
Digital Twin Documents
| Title | Date | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Team Defence – RAF Aircraft Digital Safety Trace White Paper | 04/Jul/2025 | |
| API 4 RAS paper | 12/Apr/2023 | |
| 20250922-Team Defence-Project Mercury Exec Summary | 19/Sep/2025 | |
| 20250618-Hydrogen Conference Briefing Note-June 2025 | 11/Jun/2025 | |
| 20250618 MOD Hydrogen Event Agenda – June 2025 | 11/Jun/2025 | |
| 20250618 – Spadeadam Research & Development Booklet – June 2025 | 11/Jun/2025 | |
| 20230719 – Team-Defence-MOD-Digital-Twin-White-Paper | 19/Jul/2023 | |
| 20230719 – Team Defence – Digital Twin Community of Practice Paper | 19/Jul/2023 | |
| 20230719 – Digital-Twin-Implementation-Roadmap-and-Development-Framework-White-Paper | 19/Jul/2023 | |
| 20230719 – API-Strategy-Whitepaper-for-RAS_v4 | 19/Jul/2023 | |
| 20221123 – Digital Models Shadows Twins Townhall – Nov 22 | 23/Dec/2022 | |
| 20220720-Team Defence – Digital Twin Community of Practice Paper | 20/Jul/2022 | |
| 20220524-DE&S Digital Engineering Transformation Strategy-V1.0 | 24/May/2022 |
Events
Information on all sector-relevant events, run by TD-Info and other organisations.
TD-Info Knowledge Management Community of Practice
The Knowledge Management Community of Practice will be holding a Face to Face meeting on Tuesday 13th October 2026 This meeting will be held in person at: TD-Info Office 6a Pinkers Court Briarlands Office Park Rudgeway BS35 3QH If you have any questions regarding this...
Defence Asset Management CoP
Under the auspices of TD-Info, the DAM CoP 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 DAM CoP...
ICEF/Information Security Forum
This meeting will cover the agendas for both the ICEF and the Information Security Forum. The ICEF fulfils two roles: it represents the interests of industry consumers of MOD information and, secondly, acts as an advisory change management board for those users of MOD...
News
News and blogs to keep you in the know.Â
Defence Information 22 – 8-9 June at the Active Conference Centre, Bristol
Defence Information 22 is a hybrid conference, with attendance in person and online. The programme is building and speakers already in place are mentioned below. To book follow this link Day 1: Information Strategy & Information Enablers including Data, Cyber Risk...
Team Defence Information Bulletin – April 2022
Introduction from our Managing Director, Phil Williams Like many, I am sure that TD-Info members are watching events in Ukraine unfold with horror. Few of us would have contemplated that Europe would see such scenes like those not visited upon us for 80 years. As the...
Gladiator – Defence Operational Training Capability (Air) Innovation Workshop – 6 April 2022
The DOTC capability announced by the Minister for Defence Procurement in May 2019, known as Gladiator, will evolve through incremental acquisition and allow the UK to undertake synthetic training for air, land, and maritime forces on a secure network. Â TD-Info and the...