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.
SME Showcase Event
TD-Info are running a series of Showcasing Events on behalf of our members over the coming months, initially designed to help our SME (small to medium sized enterprise) community to demonstrate their organisations’ capabilities. This initiative also aligns to the...
UK Simplified Technical English Working Group
The UK Simplified Technical English Working Group (UKSTEWG) is a group of representatives from leading UK organisations and companies that use Simplified Technical English (STE). The main purpose of the UKSTEWG is to understand the UK’s requirement for STE, promote...
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. This next meeting will now be held as a virtual meeting only using Microsoft Teams. The...
News
News and blogs to keep you in the know.
DSF Newsletter – May 2023
The Defence Supplier's Forum Newsletter for May 2023
Team Defence Information Bulletin March 2023
The Team Defence Information Bulletin for March 2023
Role of APIs in Accelerating Capability Development
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) have been identified as a key enabler to creating Operational Advantage however Defence is struggling to keep pace with the rate of technological change and is not capitalising on the opportunities that can be realised through...