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 …
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 …