Information Working Groups – Archive
CMMC
Discussion group involving MOD, Industry and representation from THE CMMC Center of Excellence identifying issues and putting forward solutions to accomodate the attainment and maintenance of new US DoD Supply Chain Certification requirements.
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Commodity Usage Partnership & Assurance
A community assurance approach for commodity product and services. Creating a ‘Which?’ style approach to reduce the cost and risk of commodity service/software acquisition. Eventually helping to secure the digital backbone through a network of SME assessors. Owned by UKCeB, chaired by MOD, but covering cross-government stakeholders.
Forecasting & Resource Planning (F&RP)
A Forecasting & Resource Planning (F&RP) Working Group to help co-ordinate practical aspects of this MOD/Industry collaboration.
Microsoft 365 Working Group
Working with MOD, Microsoft and Team Defence to ensure secure configuration and exploitation of O365 tools.
Software Enabled Defence Working Group
A strategic and disruptive MOD/Industry engagement and influence programme, assisting the MOD to exploit digital and software solutions to support the needs of Operational Constant Competition.
We have a number of “Working Groups” established to advance the mutual knowledge and understanding of a specific topic that is timely, defined, and relevant to Industry and MOD.
Each Working Group provides the focus for an area of innovative research and development invariably leading to the definition of mutually agreed standards, publication of a White Paper, or initiation of a collaborative Industry/MOD Project.
Events
Information on all sector-relevant events, run by TD-Info and other organisations.
Integrated Product Support (IPS) CoP
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...
Industry Customer Engagement Forum (ICEF)
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...
The Supportability Modelling and Analysis CoP
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. For further information, please get in touch with Leyton Lark [iFrameModal...
News
News and blogs to keep you in the know.
MOD Issues Update to JSP 912 – Human Factors Integration (HFI)
On 17 March 2022, the MOD published the latest version of Joint Service Publication (JSP) 912 promulgating MOD policy regarding the process of human factors integration (HFI) in defence systems for service personnel and contractors. HFI involves the identification and...
First MOD Robot Dog Olympic Hackathon – May 22
FCG OIL Robot Dog Olympics - May 22 Imagine an open architecture, where the latest Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS) can plug and play into a system of systems, with a device agnostic application store. Allowing user-centric workflows and enabling human machine...
New report outlines huge value of the defence sector to UK economy
The report has been published by the Joint Economic Data Hub (JEDHub), a collaborative initiative to improve understanding of the defence sector’s contribution to the UK economy and an important deliverable of the 2021 Defence and Security Industrial Strategy (DSIS)....