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 …
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 …
With cyber experts fighting to protect the UK is it time to re-think the term ‘keyboard warrior’? Anyone following the development of Defence at present will recognise that 'Cyber' has been the watchword of the last decade. Since the early …
Robin Riley recaps what happened at the first in a series of (un)conferences for digital practitioners in the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force and Ministry of Defence. In common with many digital and technology teams all over the …
Like much of the Defence community, the Royal Navy is on a digital transformation journey. Initiatives like NELSON and Navy Service Standards are great examples of work underway to build digital and data capabilities from the ground up. At the …
Listening to our growing pains Over the last year or so, we've increased the number of Navy digital services we're helping to deliver. As we've done that, we've noticed a few things: we need to get better at coordinating what …