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Team Defence – Vision 2030 Building a Resilient Digital Future for UK Government White paper
The paper advocates a coordinated, cross-government model for delivering a national digital infrastructure, driven by the recognition that no single department has sufficient skilled personnel or financial resources to build a next-generation Government Digital Backbone independently. It argues that a unified strategic framework—bringing together departmental digital leaders, shared capabilities, and centrally aligned budgets—will mitigate skills shortages, avoid fragmented investment, and promote interoperability. By integrating people, processes, information, and technology under central oversight, the proposed approach aims to create an efficient, scalable, and affordable digital foundation capable of enabling advanced digital services and realising the full benefits of AI across government.
Team Defence – MOD Hydrogen Conference Output Report
Team Defence Information, on behalf of MOD Strategic Command, held a Hydrogen Conference on Thursday the 13th of June.
Equipment Support Modelling Guide Book Charter
Currently there is an overheated Defence equipment programme which could be up to £15 billion overcommitted. This over commitment provides a clear focus for MOD to determine how the Defence budget could be better managed or reduced. This includes equipment support cost which can be up to 70% of whole life cost[1]. This situation prompts a renewed emphasis on equipment support affordability and cost management. Modelling and analysis are a means to better understand support options, associated costs and risks. This guidebook, developed by Team Defence Information and MOD Subject Matter Experts, provides a overview of the different types of modelling and associated applications. It addresses modelling for supportability and support system design, deployment, operation, and withdrawal. This includes support operation, economic, and risk modelling. Although this guidebook has a defence connotation the modelling principles are applicable to any complex equipment and its associated support system.
[1] United States of America Department of Defence Operating and Support Cost Estimating Paper
TD-Info Digital Twin Community of Practice Paper
This document presents the work undertaken in developing the vignettes discussed in the Roadmap and understanding the implementation landscape for digital twins within the defence sector
Digital Twin Implementation Road Map and Development Framework White Paper V1
The Defence Digital Twin Road Map and Development Framework builds on the previous White Papers for Digital Twins and Information Architecture; it is also based on the MOD Digital Strategy for Defence
TD-Info & MOD – Digital Twin White Paper
Within this joint MOD and Industry paper Team Defence defines what a Digital Twin is within the UK Defence context. It provides examples of the wider UK Industry experience with Digital Twins, their benefits and challenges, including culture, skills, tools, processes/procedures, networks, data and acceptance. It suggests what steps need to be taken to start realising the savings, improve capability availability and mission effectiveness.
Outcome Archive Papers
These stories represent a few of the recent successes of TD-Info and represent a cross section of our activities,
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
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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)....