Digital Product Passport (DPP) Webinar
Shape the Future of Defence: Join the Digital Product Passport (DPP) Task Force
As global supply chains evolve, the demand for transparency, provenance, and sustainability is shifting from a commercial advantage to a strategic necessity. Driven by the Strategic Defence Review and the Defence Industrial Strategy, the MoD’s National Armaments Director Group (NAD-Group) is championing a “Born Digital” vision for future acquisition and industry engagement.
At the heart of this transformation is the Digital Product Passport (DPP). While DPPs are already revolutionizing civilian sectors like batteries and textiles, applying them to Defence introduces an entirely different set of rules—balancing sovereign design, export controls, and complex multi-tier supply chains against the need for data interoperability.
To kickstart this critical initiative, the Digital Engineering Centre (DEC) and Team Defence Information (TD-Info) invite you to our upcoming launch event.
Event Details
- What: Digital Product Passport Call to Action Webinar
- When: 1 July 2026
- Objective: Raise awareness of the task, outline our 16-to-20-week goals, and build the collaborative team needed to architect the Defence DPP framework.
How You Can Contribute: Define Your Role
While our Accountable leadership team is established, we are actively looking for volunteers from across the defence enterprise to fill vital roles over this 16-to-20-week research cycle.
Responsible (Authors)
- Commitment: ~0.5 to 1 day per week.
- The Role: We need technical and operational experts to roll up their sleeves and draft specific sections of the technical paper. Help us define data fidelity, quality assurance, and where DPPs provide genuine defence value versus through-life cost.
Consulted (Subject Matter Experts & Researchers)
- The Role: Do you have existing research, real-world case studies, or operational use cases? We need you to feed into our comprehensive document trawl and cross-sector literature review to ensure our framework is built on proven best practices.
Informed (Stakeholders & Observers)
- The Role: If you want to understand how DPP will impact your future programs but don’t have the capacity to author content, this is for you. Simply join us for this initial Call to Action webinar, stay in the loop, and return for our final Out Brief to exploit the findings.
What We Will Achieve Together
Over the planned 16-week schedule (indicatively running from July to October 2026, accounting for the summer break), the task team will evaluate sector strategies, quality standards, and high-level architectural approaches.
[1 July: Launch Webinar] ➔ [Scope & Bound] ➔ [Literature Review] ➔ [Gap Analysis] ➔ [October: Final Paper & Out Brief]
Our collective efforts will culminate in a concise technical paper and supporting presentation defining Defence DPP use cases, engineering constraints, and strategic recommendations for the enterprise.
Truly Collaborative, Fully Open Access
In the spirit of genuine sector-wide digital innovation, this task will operate with an agile, collaborative approach via regular Teams touchpoints. Crucially, all final outputs will be published under a Creative Commons license, ensuring the framework is freely available to be exploited by anyone and everyone across wider industry and academia.
Note: This research is conducted without commitment or prejudice; it is not an indication of future MoD funding or program intent.
Ready to Secure Your Spot?
Don’t miss the chance to collaborate with leaders from the MoD, Rolls Royce Plc, and the wider defence landscape to establish information continuity for the next generation of capabilities.
Join us on 1 July 2026. Register for the webinar via the TD-Info portal or contact Steve Green for directly aligning your organization to a task role