Three years ago, the Head of the Royal Navy, the First Sea Lord George Zambellas said that the Royal Navy had to think and act differently to change for the better. “We have to enable this change, through technology, and …
For those working in digital across government, the Service Standard and assessment process will be familiar as a unifying vision of what good looks like for the design, build and running of services. The Government Digital Service (GDS) formally brought …
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fest is a conference series started by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), the MOD’s research arm, in 2018. Beginning as a small, largely internal, conference it has rapidly grown into the UK’s largest Defence and …
Rich Crowther, Head of the Defence Digital Service (DDS), explains why we think that - even in Defence - we can secure our OFFICIAL workloads better in the public cloud than we can on-premises. In Defence we’re starting to make …
Tom Stewart, Assistant Head of Modernisation for Veterans UK, a pillar of MOD’s Defence Business Services (DBS) reflects on the Alpha assessment process for digitising the process to apply for the Armed Forces Compensation and War Pensions Schemes. My team …
In early August 2020, we started exploring interoperability and interchangeability between Royal Navy and US Navy digital applications. We used a virtual workshop to establish links between two digital delivery teams, test methods for international collaboration and develop deeper technical …
Introduction We’ve blogged previously about how NELSON is accelerating the delivery of digital and data services for the Royal Navy (RN). We’ve explained our user-centered approach, and how we’re coordinating our work across multiple teams. These are multi-disciplinary teams formed …
Product owners play a critical role in the Royal Navy’s digital transformation. NELSON talked with Navy product owners about their experiences of digital delivery. Find out their insights and tips for success for those stepping into the role. NELSON started …
In this blog post, the Royal Navy’s NELSON gives us a behind-the-scenes look at their work to create a new architecture community for Navy Digital. Joining the dots The NELSON Coordination team is helping to meet the Navy Digital and …
How Defence Digital’s Application Service and Development & Operations (DevOps) Team (ASDT) and Defence Business Services (DBS) are making administration tasks easier by addressing an age-old problem. Sometimes it’s hard to see the problem with how you’re doing things. Sometimes …
Balancing civilian and military life For the last 20 years I’ve had had two careers. Throughout various parts of my life they’ve taken different priorities. And sometimes each has wanted a little more than the other will allow. But for …