In the first of a two-part series, one of the trailblazers of user research in Defence, Dr Silvia Grant, shares some of her insights from conducting user research with the Armed Forces. As the Defence Digital Service (DDS) celebrates its …
To mark Safer Internet Day, Claire Fry, Director Functional Integration, offers her tips on how to keep children safe online. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become more important than ever to connect with our loved ones through social media …
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 …