Standards
ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) Maintenance Group
The Simplified Technical English Maintenance Group (STEMG) is an international group of representatives who maintain and update the STE specification which gives rules, a dictionary of approved words and underlying principles to produce technical documentation that is clear, concise, accurate and translatable. Ciaran Dodd is the UK’s representative on the STEMG.
Standards Coordination Working Group
From a UK perspective, this working group is focused on the development of international standards and specifications which address ‘Information sharing related to Support’.
This includes but is not limited to the S-Series suite of Integrated Product Support (IPS) specifications and the NATO AP10 IPS standard.
Julian Dayment is the TD-Info lead for this Working Group
Integrated Product Support IPS Council
The IPS Council, chaired by TD-Info, brings together European and USA organisations to collaborate in the development, maintenance and promotion of the ASD/AIA S-Series IPS specifications.
Simplified Technical English (STE) Support Team UK (STEST-UK)
The STEST-UK has representatives from leading UK organisations that use STE. The role of the STEST-UK is to represent UK changes and recommendations to the STEMG and share developments in STE to UK organisations.
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...
Natural Capital & Infrastructure Community of Practice
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,...
Knowledge Fridays Café
‘Knowledge Fridays Café’ These regular informal meetings are opportunities to build our community and knowledge management practice through a series of guest speakers and discussion drawing from our memberships and further afield. These meetings help to inform our...
News
News and blogs to keep you in the know.
Data Exploitation in Defence : Powered by Tableau – 14 June
“Our ambition to ‘unleash the power of data’ is stronger than ever. Our future will be shaped by how we protect and exploit Defence’s assets. Data will become our second most important asset only behind our People. This is the clear intent of our Data...
Support to Ukraine Innovation Fund
Defence Ministers are calling on UK industry to accelerate the development of equipment for the Ukrainian armed forces, launching a £25 million campaign fund for the design and delivery of equipment to the country across the coming months. The competition will be...
Team Defence Information Bulletin – May 2022
Introduction from our Managing Director, Phil Williams Hello TD-Info World As the year races on apace and our gaze is still hard fast on Ukraine, we reflected at SupportNET 22 with MP and Minister for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quinn, and Lt General Richard Wardlaw...