Team Defence Information

Critical Raw Materials for Defence: Online Snack Series - Session 2
2025-09-03 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | Virtual – MS Teams
The recent Critical Raw Materials for Defence Report we published, outlines a proposed framework for enhancing Critical Raw Materials resilience in the UK Defence sector through circular economy principles and recycling. Our aim was to contribute to the development of the UK’s industrial strategy and ensure Defence has a strong voice in this important area. As the financial settlement process moves forward, we’re keen to keep the conversation active.
Join us for the Snack Series—a rapid-fire set of expert-led sessions that dive into the most urgent challenges and strategic opportunities across the UK’s critical materials ecosystem.
From policy to platforms, e-waste to innovation funding, this series brings together voices across government, industry, and academia to shape a more circular, resilient, and sovereign defence future.
Why Attend?• Get insights into policy, innovation, and supply chain resilience• Hear from leaders shaping the future of defence and critical materials• Connect across disciplines—from recyclers and researchers to strategists and policymakers
Each session features a 20-minute presentation from leading organisations, followed by a 40-minute panel Q&A. Sessions will explore:• Global supply chain risks• UK capability and innovation• Priority Defence use cases
Content will focus on real insights and lessons—not sales pitches—with case studies encouraged. No prior defence knowledge required; many challenges are cross-sector.
Why It MattersNew mining is costly, slow, and environmentally challenging. Reclaiming materials from end-of-life equipment could offer a faster, cheaper, and greener path. Let’s mine our waste—not the planet.
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If you would like further information please contact steve.green@teamdefence.info

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2024 Criticality Assessment

The Innovation Imperative, Bridging the Supply Demand Gap for Critical Raw Material by 2030

Critical Raw Materials for Defence: Online Snack Series - Session 1
2025-08-29 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual – MS Teams
The recent Critical Raw Materials for Defence Report we published, outlines a proposed framework for enhancing Critical Raw Materials resilience in the UK Defence sector through circular economy principles and recycling. Our aim was to contribute to the development of the UK’s industrial strategy and ensure Defence has a strong voice in this important area. As the financial settlement process moves forward, we’re keen to keep the conversation active.
Join us for the Snack Series—a rapid-fire set of expert-led sessions that dive into the most urgent challenges and strategic opportunities across the UK’s critical materials ecosystem.
From policy to platforms, e-waste to innovation funding, this series brings together voices across government, industry, and academia to shape a more circular, resilient, and sovereign defence future.
Why Attend?• Get insights into policy, innovation, and supply chain resilience• Hear from leaders shaping the future of defence and critical materials• Connect across disciplines—from recyclers and researchers to strategists and policymakers
Each session features a 20-minute presentation from leading organisations, followed by a 40-minute panel Q&A. Sessions will explore:• Global supply chain risks• UK capability and innovation• Priority Defence use cases
Content will focus on real insights and lessons—not sales pitches—with case studies encouraged. No prior defence knowledge required; many challenges are cross-sector.
Why It MattersNew mining is costly, slow, and environmentally challenging. Reclaiming materials from end-of-life equipment could offer a faster, cheaper, and greener path. Let’s mine our waste—not the planet.
Get Involved
Join the conversation. Shape the future. Spread the word.
Want to stay informed or take part? Sign up now to receive invites and materials
By signing up you will receive diary invites to these sessions and will also receive invites to any subsequent workstreams/presentations.
1st Series – 29th August 1500 – 1600

Time
Topic
Speaker

1455
Teams Session Opened

1500
Welcome and Introduction
Steve Green

1505
Bridging the Supply Demand Gap by 2030 (Ref A)
Petr Pudil Globsec

1520
UK 2024 Criticality Assessment (Ref B)
Dr Evi Petravatzi

1535
Panel Q&A session
All

1555
Closing remarks and next event
Steve Green

1600
Team meeting ends

If you would like further information please contact steve.green@teamdefence.info or nigel.procter@teamdefence.info

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Expression of Interest - Land Autonomous Collaborative Platform Industry Day
2025-08-21 10:00 - 15:00 | battlelab, dorset
Expression of Interest will close 1159 on 11th August
Introduction
The British Army is pleased to invite you to apply to participate in the Land Autonomous Collaborative Platform (LACP) industry workshops, which will take place on 21 August 2025 at the Defence BattleLab Dorset. This in-person only collaborative event reinforces Defence’s transformative relationship with industry to support the Army’s modernisation efforts. This Army event is a progression on the National Armaments Director Group engagement (13-14 Aug 25) and will focus specifically on the LACP problem set.
The ‘Problem’
The British Army seeks to develop an Uncrewed Air System (UAS) to pair with the Apache AH-64E attack helicopter as an ACP. The ACP will operate in a highly autonomous, ‘commanded not controlled’ manner to perform multi-mission tasks in contested battlespace, including reconnaissance, target acquisition, strike, countermeasure defeat, and integration with Launched Effects (LE). The ACP will enhance the lethality and survivability of the crewed platform and do so with a smaller logistic footprint and lower maintenance requirement relative to the crewed platform.
Focus areas
These workshops are a key opportunity for Defence stakeholders to engage with industry partners to explore innovative and novel solutions that leverage advancements in autonomy, modularity, and manufacturing scalability. The Army is seeking to develop understanding of technology readiness and industrial capability to inform the User Requirements. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Uncrewed Air Systems (UAS) – A system including the platform, the supporting network and equipment. A Vertical Take-off and Landing (VToL) UAS able to carry c.200kg+ payloads are most likely to satisfy the operational use case.
Autonomous systems – Solutions that enable varying levels of autonomy, or the fully autonomous command and control of UAS. Transversal capabilities such as AI-based decision making, digital twins, synthetic environment, digital, data and security standards.
Certification and regulation – working with civilian and military regulators to navigate regulatory challenges and support industries to test and evaluate platforms.
System integration – the challenges of integrating a system of systems and the adoption of modularity.
Modular payloads.
Other Defence Lines of Development (DLoDs) considerations to include safety, communications, cyber, navigation, interoperability.

Industry Engagement Approach
Conduct of the day will be a collaborative endeavour with United Kingdom Defence Innovation (UKDI), Defence & Security Accelerator (DASA), Futures Lab and Dstl supported by Team Defence Information. The event will be hosted at the Defence BattleLab where military challenges intersect with industry solutions. To cohere the day’s interaction, three core workshops are planned with additional scope to accommodate emergent topics through the day.
Workshop 1 – Platforms – the Uncrewed Air System (UAS)
Workshop 2 – Autonomy solutions
Workshop 3 – Integration, comms and navigation systems.
Please note: There are physical restraints on the numbers of participants so do not delay in registering your interest, successful attendees will be notified on 12th August

Expression of Interest

AdMaaS Digital Thread Working Group Meeting
2025-08-20 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-07-16 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-06-18 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-05-20 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual – MS Teams
The AdMaaS Digital Thread Working Group Meeting is held on the 3rd Wednesday of every month virtually via MS Teams.
If you wish to attend please register your attendance using the register here button. You will receive the MS Teams link upon registration. To place this into your calendar please download the ics file on your confirmation email.
If you have any questions regarding these meetings please contact Edit.Barbantan100@mod.gov.uk
If you have any questions regarding registration please contact kelly.gough@teamdefence.info

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Industry Customer Engagement Forum
2025-07-14 13:00 - 15:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT
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 products and services operating outside the MOD estate. Organisationally, the ICEF is managed under the TD-Info Delivery Continuity Executive and reports to TD-Info MD.
The next ICEF meeting will be held virtually by MS Teams 1300 – 1500.
If you would like to know more please contact Andy Corbett

Defence Information 25
2025-07-09 08:00 - 2025-07-10 14:30 | Active Conference Centre, Thornbury Active Lifestyle Centre,Alveston Hill, Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, BS35 3JB, United Kingdom
A New Era for Team Defence

The theme for this year is ‘A New Era for Team Defence’. There are major changes coming from a series of reviews and strategies. How does Team Defence respond? In addition, we need to keep ahead of the relentless technological advances, increase influence with Allies and increase thought leadership. The 6 panels run over 1.5 days and cover:

Panel One – Strategy & Policy
Panel Two – Defence Industry Perspective of the New Era
Panel Three – Acquisition & Technology for the New Era
Panel Four A – Reducing the cyber risk & Increasing digital exploitation for the New Era
Panel Four B – Talent & Skills for the New Era
Panel Five – Operators Perspective of the New Era
Panel Six – Academia, Science, Technology & Innovation for the New Era

“Today this Government is bringing in the deepest reforms in UK Defence for 50 years, which will fundamentally change the way defence operates.”, Rt Hon John Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, Statement UIN HCWS573, 1 Apr 25
Day One includes access to the TD-Info hosted ‘Network Extra’, a less formal gathering to discuss the first day with delegates, exhibitors and speakers, walk around the exhibition, the session includes hot refreshments and runs from Closing Remarks to 20.00 hours.
Day Two PM Workshop, more information to follow.
‘I am increasingly impressed by the unprecedented, generational changes underway in MOD and the willingness to seek a new way of working. DI25 is the ideal forum and timing to express views and hear the very latest developments plus contribute to the essential workshops which inform MOD planning on delivery. I expect the workshops on Day 2 to be the one place for industry to inform and debate the prior 2 days of high protein content from expert speakers. I urge all to be represented at DI25 and these all-important workshops which are limited to 60 and are filling up fast!
Chris Parker MBE, Director Government Strategy, Fortinet
Exhibition Stand Space and Sponsorships are available from £1000 plus VAT, click on the Sponsor/Exhibit button to book.
Ticket Information

TD-Info Members: Both Days £550, Day One or Day Two £300, Virtual £100
Non-Members: Both Days £850, Day One or Day Two £450, Virtual £250
MOD: All tickets FOC

Note: Day One and Both Day tickets include Network Extra, the above prices are subject to 20% VAT.
PLEASE NOTE: Team Defence Information (TD-Info) may have official photographer(s) and/or camera person(s) at our events to produce promotional material/project work/learning materials.

Delegates Register here

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Sponsor/Exhibit here

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MOD Defence Artificial Intelligence Centre (DAIC)

MOD Skills for Defence (DS4D)

MOD Digital Engineering Centre

MOD Defence Digital Commercial

Information Security Forum
2025-07-03 11:00 - 15:30 | TD-Info, 6A Pinkers Court, Briarlands Office Park, Bristol, BS35 3QH, United Kingdom
The purpose of the Information Security Forum (ISF) is to provide better ways of working securely across Team Defence by identifying key issues and agreeing on common approaches to resolution by sharing good practice, collaborating on accreditation standards, providing a practical (and compliant) interpretation of Government policy, and sharing event and near-miss data.
The ISF collaboratively develops guidance, influences policy and communicates key messages to members and, where appropriate, broader stakeholders on Information Security and Assurance matters.
This meeting will be held In-person at TD-Info Offices and virtually using Microsoft Teams. Group members will be sent the link to join the meeting.
This is a closed group, however if you wish to participate or would like further information please contact Andy Corbett

Lead Sponsors Forum
2025-06-28 10:00 - 12:00 | tbc
The Lead Sponsors Forum reviews TD-Info’s performance against agreed strategic goals and helps define its future agenda.
Lead Sponsor Forum members are senior figures invited to join from TD-Info’s membership. This meeting is by invitation only.

Integrated Product Support (IPS) CoP
2025-06-26 10:00 - 12:00 | virtual
To support the UK MoD and UK industry in improving Supportability Engineering (ILS) standards, processes (technical and management) and training in order to improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of Supportability Engineering (ILS) programmes and hence ultimately to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Total System (comprising the System of Interest, the Support System and the Concept of Employment). That is, we strive to improve the Whole Life Cost Effectiveness of the “System of Interest”.
This meeting will be a virtual meeting via MS Teams

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SME Showcase
2025-06-25 11:00 - 12:00
TD-Info are running a series of Showcasing Events on behalf of our members, designed to help our SME (small to medium sized enterprise) community to demonstrate their organisations’ capabilities. This initiative also aligns to the MOD’s commitment to help and promote the SME community in the Defence sector.
The next event will be held on 25th June, 11:00 – 12:00, online via Teams, and will comprise of 3-4 SME’s presenting an overview of their company and capabilities, to the TD-Info Membership base. Please register your interest in our next showcase at the link to the side of the page (event date and time subject to change.)
If you are an SME interested in getting involved with future showcases, please contact julian.dayment@teamdefence.info and andy.whatman@teamdefence.info

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TD-Info Knowledge Management Community of Practice
2025-06-24 10:00 - 13:00 | TD-Info, 6A Pinkers Court, Briarlands Office Park, Bristol, BS35 3QH, United Kingdom
The Knowledge Management Community of Practice will be holding an Inaugural Face to Face meeting on 24th June 1000 – 1300.
This meeting will be held in person at:
TD-Info Office
6a Pinkers Court
Briarlands Office Park
Rudgeway
BS35 3QH
Tors and Days agenda can be viewed underneath the registration button.
If you have any questions regarding this group please contact Alison.Bulbeck100@mod.gov.uk

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Terms of Reference

Days Agenda

Executive Group Team Meeting
2025-06-23 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-30 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-04-03 10:00 - 12:00 | TD-Info, 6A Pinkers Court, Briarlands Office Park, Bristol, BS35 3QH, United Kingdom
The Team Defence Executive Team operate monthly sessions which will look to support and mature opportunities and guide the broad portfolio of Team Defence Activities so they align with the strategic direction and focus set by the Team Defence Strategy Group.
This is a Hybrid meeting to be held on Microsoft Teams, and In-Person at the TD-Info Office, Rudgeway. A supporting slidepack and document suite will be made available prior to the session.

JISCOT Meeting - 18th June 2025
2025-06-18 14:00 - 16:00 | TD-Info, 6A Pinkers Court, Briarlands Office Park, Bristol, BS35 3QH, United Kingdom
The Mission of the Joint Information Standards Co-ordination Team (JISCOT) is to co-ordinate, for the UK, the MOD and Industry representation in the identification, development, deployment and maintenance of a coherent set of standards to meet the needs of UK Defence from this global activity within the scope of Team Defence Information (TD-Info) activity.
Our next meeting will be a virtual meeting using Microsoft Teams.
If you have any questions please contact Kelly.gough@teamdefence.info

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Team Defence Strategy Group
2025-06-18 09:30 - 12:00 | TCS, Level 44, 22 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ
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 objectives.
For further information, please contact Ed Coleman
This is a hybrid meeting and will be held In-person location TBC and virtually via Microsoft Teams.

The Supportability Modelling and Analysis CoP
2025-06-17 10:00 - 15:00 | TD-Info, 6A Pinkers Court, Briarlands Office Park, Bristol, BS35 3QH, United Kingdom
A working group that seeks to identify and promulgate good practice in life cycle cost modelling across the UK Defence sector and contribute to the realisation of the DSCM vision.
This next meeting will now be held as a virtual meeting only using Microsoft Teams. The Agenda for this meeting can be viewed by clicking the button on your right.
For further information, please get in touch with Frank Murphy

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Agenda

Natural Capital & Infrastructure Community of Practice
2025-06-12 13:00 - 16:00 | TD-Info, 6A Pinkers Court, Briarlands Office Park, Bristol, BS35 3QH, United Kingdom
The Natural Capital & Infrastructure (NC&I) Community of Practice
The topic
Team Defence has defined this in a Defence enterprise perspective as looking and focusing on Natural capital, which is the world’s stock of natural resources, which includes geology, soils, air, water, and all living organisms. Some natural capital assets provide people with free goods and services, often called ecosystem services and Infrastructure – the basic physical and organisational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.
How we operate

Our community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfil both individual and group goals.
Communities of practice often focus on sharing best practices and creating new knowledge to advance a domain of professional practice. Interaction on an ongoing basis is an important part of this.
Our community of practice relies on face-to-face meetings as well as web-based collaborative environments to communicate, connect and conduct community activities.

Why get involved?
Your contribution will enable you to understand the direction of travel from within Defence, shape, influence and assist MOD in its future direction for Natural Capital & Infrastructure. There is also a connection to work as part of a team with equally capable and knowledgeable organisations within Defence and the wider digital community. This is an opportunity for wider industry experience and best practice to be showcased within the Defence environment.
This will enable:

Understanding of how focus areas will interact to realise a future end state.
Articulation of requirements for capability across the enterprise
Development of capability roadmaps
Alignment, pull through and learning from representative capabilities.

Assessment of potential solutions and recommendations for future development
The next meeting for the NC&I Cop will be taking place on 30th April 2024. This will be a hybrid meeting taking place In-person at TD-Info Office, Rudgeway and Virtually via MS Teams (Teams link received upon registration)
Eion Bailey is the TD-Info lead for this CoP
Please contact Kelly Gough if you have any question regarding registration.

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Agenda

Industry Customer Engagement Forum
2025-06-09 13:00 - 15:00 | MOD Corsham, Westwells Road, Hawthorn, SN13 9NR
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 products and services operating outside the MOD estate. Organisationally, the ICEF is managed under the TD-Info Delivery Continuity Executive and reports to TD-Info MD.
The next ICEF meeting will be held in person at MOD Corsham and virtually by MS Teams 1300 – 1500.
If you would like to know more please contact Andy Corbett

Agenda

AdM as a Service Challenge Working Groups (Pj TAMPA) June Event
2025-06-04 09:00 - 16:30 | NEC, The National Exhibition Centre, Pendigo Way, Marston Green, Birmingham, B40 1NT
Registration Now Closed
The second Additive Manufacturing as a Service Challenge (a.k.a Project TAMPA) Face-to-Face Working Group Event of the year will be held on Wednesday 4th March 2025 at the NEC in Birmingham and will form part of a wider event, TCT 3Sixty. Project TAMPA will be hosted in a space adjacent to the main TCT 3Sixty conference as this event is kindly sponsored by TCT Group. Please note that you do not need to register to the TCT 3Sixty event as well in order to attend the Project TAMPA event.
Do not delay registering as the number of spaces is limited to 100 attendees and the spaces will be offered on a first come, first served basis. The registration will close on 27 May 2025.
The aim and agenda, which are subject to change, are as follows:
Aim: Present lessons learnt from Spiral 2 and present the successful Spiral 3 parts.

09:00 Arrival – Tea & Coffee
09:30 Welcome, Housekeeping and Agenda by Edit Barbantan and Duncan Wood
09:35 Executive Group Welcome by Dr Ross Trepleton
09:40 2024 Annual Review by Edit Barbantan
09:50 AdM as a Service Challenge Updates on the Advance Manufacturing Strategy; Spirals 1, 2 and 3 by Wg Cdr Jon McMahon
10:00 Spiral 4 High Level Overview by Bernadette Saunders
10:10 Make UK / MTC presentation on supply chain engagement mechanisms by James Watson (MakeUK) and Ross Trepleton (MTC)
10:30 Spiral 2 LFE session Babcock
11:00 Coffee break (30 min)
11:30 Spiral 2 LFE session RBSL
12:00 Spiral 2 LFE session NP Aerospace
12:30 Spiral 2 LFE session Thales
13:00 Lunch in TCT 3Sixty exhibition (1 hour 30 minutes)
14:30 Team Defence Information Update / Certification WG update by Stu Olden
14:40 Digital Thread WG update
14:50 H4MOD Challenge on Prioritising Reverse Engineering of Obsolete Parts by Alex Champion
15:00 Spiral 3 High level overviews
15:40 Wrap-up by Ross Trepleton and Jon McMahon
15:50 Close

You can find a map of the event location attached to this advert. Project TAMPA will be hosted in the Toute Suite.
Lunch and some refreshments will be provided. Dress code – business casual; no military uniform is required. Please ensure you bring some form of photo ID with you on the day. Parking is freely available at the event location, Please use Car Park East 1-4.

For any questions about the event or if you are no longer able to attend, please contact UKStratCom-DefSp-Innovation@mod.gov.uk.

TCT 3Sixty Map

TD-Info Town Hall Meeting
2025-05-22 09:00 - 14:45 | Thornbury Active Leisure Centre, Alveston Hill, Thornbury, BS35 3JB
The TD-Info town halls provide an opportunity for our community, both MoD and Industry to meet and discuss the topics du jour. The September townhall will allow our 1* Exec team to brief on their activities(See below) in the round as they link to our 3* Board’s areas of focus.
It will also allow us to plan for the end of year town hall when one of our aforementioned 3*s, Vice Admiral Andy Kyte, CDLS, will take the lead in updating progress against key topics such as supply chain resilience and Business Modernisation for Support.
The Team Defence Executive Team operate monthly sessions which will look to support and mature opportunities and guide the broad portfolio of Team Defence Activities, so they align with the strategic direction and focus set by the Team Defence Strategy Group.
The next Townhall will take place on 22nd May 2025 at Thornbury Acc in the Severnside Suite.

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Agenda

SME Showcase
2025-05-15 11:00 - 12:00
TD-Info are running a series of Showcasing Events on behalf of our members, designed to help our SME (small to medium sized enterprise) community to demonstrate their organisations’ capabilities. This initiative also aligns to the MOD’s commitment to help and promote the SME community in the Defence sector.
The next event will be held on 15th May, 11:00 – 12:00, online via Teams, and will comprise of 3-4 SME’s presenting an overview of their company and capabilities, to the TD-Info Membership base. Please register your interest in our next showcase at the link to the side of the page (event date and time subject to change.)
If you are an SME interested in getting involved with future showcases, please contact julian.dayment@teamdefence.info and andy.whatman@teamdefence.info
(Please note that this event is only open to the TD-Info Membership)
Resources from the previous event:
Slide pack from the February showcase:
https://www.teamdefence.info/document/20250327-td-info-sme-showcase/
Recording from the February Showcase:
SME Showcase-20250227_110332-Meeting Recording.mp4

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Defence Asset Management Conference - Sharing The Royal Navy’s Journey
2025-05-06 09:30 - 16:30 | Thornbury Active Leisure Centre, Alveston Hill, Thornbury, BS35 3JB
06/May/2025 @ 9:30 am – 16:30 pm
The first and hybrid Defence Asset Management Conference, jointly supported by the IAM and Team Defence information, has now been announced.
Background
Following the Defence gathering organised by Liam McKenna (Head of Asset Management at DIO) at the IAM UK Chapter Conference in November 2024, this first Defence Asset Management Conference aims to keep the momentum within the Defence Asset Management community. This event is supported by the IAM UK South-West Branch and Team Defence Information Defence Asset Management Community of Practice (DAM CoP).
What to Expect
While the agenda is still being finalised, the main theme is about the Royal Navy and its organisations sharing their Asset Management journey. We will cover their experience in implementing Asset Management, from an Equipment and Infrastructure perspective, from MOD and Industry view points.

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Agenda

Not SDR – the Industry view of capability planning to meet 2025’s challenges
2025-05-01 09:00 - 14:00
This July’s annual Defence Information workshop – “A new era for Defence: what MOD wants from Industry; what Industry needs from MOD” – is an early opportunity to help shape the post-SDR relationship between front-line users of military capability and its industrial suppliers. With the actual SDR not now expected to report before June, we are planning a couple of, intentionally one-sided, seminar/webinars to collate an Industry view of what the capability element of SDR might contain if Industry were writing it.
Two sessions are planned for 1 May – 0900-1000 and 1300-1400 – each with the following outline agenda:

Introduction – to include the environmental changes driving the need for a new approach
Accelerated acquisition/procurement: responding to environmental changes and increased threat levels
Best-practice from non-Defence industries: eg health, oil & gas etc
Measuring agility as a KPI: agility more complex than company size
Implications for managing delivery risk: consequences of failure – benefits of success

(Note that the pm webinar will start with a synopsis of key points from the am session)
A lot to get through in an hour so meetings may run on longer if members wish; however, the agenda topics will each be covered within the first hour. Please register at the links to the side of this page.
C. 12 places will be available for members wishing to join the discussions in-person at the TD-Info Office in Briarlands Office Park, BS35 3QH.
Contact Tony for more information (tony.butler@teamdefence.info).

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Integrated Product Support (IPS) CoP
2025-04-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Hybrid
To support the UK MoD and UK industry in improving Supportability Engineering (ILS) standards, processes (technical and management) and training in order to improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of Supportability Engineering (ILS) programmes and hence ultimately to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Total System (comprising the System of Interest, the Support System and the Concept of Employment). That is, we strive to improve the Whole Life Cost Effectiveness of the “System of Interest”.
This meeting will be a virtual meeting via MS Teams

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Agenda

Pandora Project Live Service for Defence, International and Supply Chain Collaboration
2025-04-25 11:30 - 12:15
This is an early opportunity to inform industry members about the forthcoming service launch arising from the Defence Digital Pandora Project. Officially launching on Monday 28th April, the Pandora Project, which has been a joint collaboration between MOD Defence Digital and Sopra Steria Ltd, will field the BluejaySecureCollaboration Service which will enable Defence, International and Supply Chain Collaboration.
BluejaySecureCollaboration is a new defence capability enabling seamless collaboration at SECRET across the armed forces, partners and industry. It is the first secure Collaborative Working Environment assured to Defence’s Secure by Design (SbD) Framework, against the latest cyber security threat landscape. BluejaySecureCollaboration provides a ‘first-of-class’ service to our global Defence partners across government and industry, with the ability to interoperate, in real-time, using intuitive applications and interfaces, with active, and assured, security and cyber risk management.
This webinar will cover the following:

Introduction to the Pandora Project live-service
Defence’s Secure by Design assurance
Shared Responsibility Model
Service Prerequisites & Onboarding
Commercial models
What it means for UK Defence and our global partnerships

Please register your attendance by 23/04/2025. If you’re unable to attend the session but would like to know more information, please contact ukstratcomdd-cis-dis-isg-cweas@mod.gov.uk

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UK Defence Integration Capability Set Development, to support Defence Priorities
2025-04-02 10:30 - 16:30
​Event to:

Understand the MOD’s Integration Intent to inform an Industry response to the defence imperatives.
Define potential short notice, deployed capability sets, lead times, and supplier collaboration, recognising the need to iterate and improve.
Understand the industry concerns, issues, and the challenges which arise working through a potential ‘coalition of the willing” including UK, Allies, NATO, and Industrial partners.
Collectively understand the demand signal required by Industry to ensure effective and efficient support.
Define how best to work collaboratively to mature capability sets through working group action & industry SQEP secondees
Define collaborative effort to mature capability sets through working group action & industry SQEP secondees.

In person and Virtual.
Unclassified.
Given in-person space constraints (and being respectful of the contribution by all), only 1 in-person attendee per organisation will be allowed.
Senior Government officials will be joining to observe, (and assist were appropriate), however, this is an industry led event to offer how collegiate input to their immediate defence integration imperatives can assist.

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