Innovation
 Description
Disruptive ideas and technologies that offer improvements and beneficial changes to capabilities and cultures with UK Defence.
Aspiration/Vision
Receptiveness to, and widespread adoption of, disruptive technologies such as autonomous systems and additive manufacture with UK Defence. Ecosystem where good ideas are shared, explored, proven and accelerated to add value across the extended support enterprise mechanism that enables rapid horizontal pull through of practice, process and technology that transforms Defence Support have a thread from today’s challenges with a roadmap to a future where we cannot envisage what we could do in the future Agile, resilient, efficient, effective safe and sustainable defence support systems enabled through adoption and adaptions of best practice, process and technology.
First Steps/Building Blocks
Removing boundaries and impediments to change – removal of policy process and rules that prevent innovation and accelerate Empowerment of people to bring about change.
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...
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
News
News and blogs to keep you in the know.Â
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)....
