Defence

CORONATION OF KING CHARLES III

Alongside the rest of the nation, MI5 were delighted to celebrate the coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

Updated: Tue May 09 2023

Making the MOD an information-driven organisation

The Ministry of Defence employs around 250,000 people and works with over 355,000 employees of partners and suppliers. It has established a vast amount of knowledge and information across the military and civil service, including in areas such as science, ...

Updated: Tue May 02 2023

Definitive guidance for digital services

The Digital Strategy for Defence makes it clear that: "people and process are as vital as tech for successful digital change". To innovate the way Defence works, people need clear guidance that they can rely on and access easily. There's ...

Updated: Thu Mar 23 2023

Introducing MOD.UK Frontend and the Design Library

We're proud to launch 2 products that will help the Ministry of Defence (MOD) create consistent digital products and services. As the product manager on the Frontend team, I can't wait to see designers and developers use MOD.UK Frontend and ...

Updated: Fri Feb 17 2023

Join D2S Today: Public Beta Launch

The Defence DevSecOps Service (D2S) is here to provide our users with a streamlined and accelerated software delivery experience. The service spans across people, practices and platforms and is designed to deliver a shorter time to market and promote greater ...

Updated: Tue Feb 14 2023

The top 3 things you need to know about D2S in 2023

Over the past year, the Defence DevSecOps Service (D2S) has focused on delivering value for our users and the wider Defence community. As the D2S Service Owner, I am proud of what we have accomplished in partnership with our user ...

Updated: Wed Jan 18 2023

In Conversation with Ben Holloway, Head of Data and Navy Applications

Ben Holloway, the head of Data and Navy Applications was asked to join the judging panel for the first pan-Defence Hackathon at RAF Henlow. Eighty people from the RAF, Army, Navy, Reserves and Civil Service worked together in cross-functional teams ...

Updated: Tue Dec 06 2022

MOD prove there is no escaping Cyber Awareness Month in 2022

In an increasingly digital world, the threat posed by hostile actors is greater than ever. It is therefore crucial that everyone, no matter their role or seniority, takes cyber accountability. But as the threat grows, so too does the risk ...

Updated: Fri Nov 25 2022

Digital Discoveries Part 1: Reviewing projects to proceed with

The Digital Discovery Assessment Branch (DDAB) is part of D Info and it accepts submissions to the Digital Discovery Gateway for project proposals. Anyone can submit a project through the Digital Discovery Gateway and submitters are asked to summarise and ...

Updated: Wed Nov 23 2022

Digital Discoveries Part 2: Our top First Look principles and methods

First Looks are the Digital Discovery Assessment Branch's (DDAB's) way of assessing whether a project is suitable to proceed onto Discovery. In Part 1, we covered the problems we had with assessing a submitted project's potential for Discovery in an ...

Updated: Wed Nov 23 2022

Is being too trusting our downfall...?

When I was asked to write about my 'personal perspective' on cyber awareness, my first thought was: What comment could I possibly make, when I have never been impacted by a 'cyber event?' On reflection, though, cyber threats and defences ...

Updated: Mon Oct 31 2022

Defence Digital Blog: Taking podularity underwater

A FASTER way forward for Defence innovation In his March 2022 Defence Digital Blog March 2022 Defence Digital Blog, Director of Submarine Capability in the Defence Nuclear Organisation (DNO), describes how the Future Architecture Submarine Technology Enabling RIOT (Rapid insertion of ...

Updated: Mon Oct 24 2022

Is it really worth it for an extra few likes...?

A huge proportion of our population now spend much of their day glued to laptop screens or monitors. This has only increased since the Covid-19 pandemic. Research shows that 57.6 million people in the UK (equivalent to 84.3% of the ...

Updated: Thu Oct 20 2022

Celebrating one year of the Navy Schedule Service (NSS)

My adopted programme (Navy Schedule Service) is a year old, and this is what I've learnt. Please join me in wishing the Navy Schedule Service a happy first birthday. Navy Schedule Service (NSS) went live 16th September 2021. NSS, a ...

Updated: Fri Oct 07 2022

The Defence Digital Foundry - To do, doing and done

The Defence Digital Foundry is a new 'team of teams' in MOD which aims to create excellent digital services for defence users - and at the same time, provide platforms and tools that help others to build great services quickly ...

Updated: Tue Aug 02 2022

Meet the Hackers

The Vulnerability Research team has been utilising the expertise and experience of the ethical hacking community to identify and test MODs systems. This has given us access to some of the best security researchers in the world and we will ...

Updated: Sun Jul 31 2022

The Defence AI Centre

Following the successful launch of the Defence Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy by the Minister for Defence Procurement in June, we are pleased to announce that the Defence AI Centre is now operational and will enhance Defence's ability to harness the ...

Updated: Sun Jul 31 2022