Activities

The Team Defence Information Task Force sponsors and facilitates a number of Working Groups, each focused on a specific aspect of collaborative information sharing. Their purpose is to identify and progress issues – and to develop advice and guidance for the benefit of Team Defence. Representation includes UK Ministry of Defence (and other Government Departments where appropriate) as well as industry. Participation is open to representatives from TD-Info member organisations and others by invitation.

Communities of Practice

A list of retired Communities of Practise and their artifacts

Working Groups 

A list of retired working groups and their artifacts

Seminars

This archive includes past programmes and presentation where the presenter has given permission to share.

Standards

A list of retired standards groups and their artifacts

Projects

A list of completed projects and their artifacts

Communities of Practice

Addresses Industry or MOD interest in a broad topic area; 

Should be used as a vehicle to advance common understanding;

Must have a Team Defence Information Task Force Member to facilitate;  

Must have a Terms of Reference agreed by Team Defence Executive Team; 

Outputs can be used to form a whitepaper, working group or project which are subject to the approval of the Executive Team; 

Doesn’t have to produce monthly reports although they are available for the group to escalate issues to the Executive Team

Working Groups 

Discussion or defined collaborative working required on a distinct topic area e.g. DEFSTAN 00-600; 

Used to advance Industry and MOD knowledge; 

Can sponsor the creation of a whitepaper or oversee a project or programme of work once the group has matured;

Should normally last longer than 12 months (although meeting regularity can vary) otherwise a project should be considered;

Must have a MOD and Industry Chair; 

Must have an agreed TOR and report monthly.

Projects

Defined, achievable deliverable or change; 

Can be the output of a white paper;

Can be an activity sponsored by an established working group;

No longer than a year duration;

Must have an Industry and MOD Project Lead; 

Must have a 2* or 3* Sponsor and/or Industry equivalent from Team Defence Strategy Group;

Must have an approved Project Initiation Document (PID) by Team Defence Executive Team; 

Must report monthly. 

Events

Information on all sector-relevant events, run by TD-Info and other organisations.

Lead Sponsors Forum

The Lead Sponsors Forum reviews TD-Info’s performance against agreed strategic goals and helps define its future agenda. Lead Sponsor Forum members are senior figures invited to join from TD-Info’s membership. This meeting is by invitation only.

Team Defence Strategy Group

The Strategy Group has been established to interpret the 3* Advisory Board’s bi-annual areas of strategic focus along with outputs from the Team Defence Information Council to sponsor and approve Team Defence Information activities which align to these top-level...

News

News and blogs to keep you in the know. 

MOD Issues Update to JSP 912 – Human Factors Integration (HFI)

On 17 March 2022, the MOD published the latest version of Joint Service Publication (JSP) 912 promulgating MOD policy regarding the process of human factors integration (HFI) in defence systems for service personnel and contractors. HFI involves the identification and...

First MOD Robot Dog Olympic Hackathon – May 22

FCG OIL Robot Dog Olympics - May 22 Imagine an open architecture, where the latest Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS) can plug and play into a system of systems, with a device agnostic application store. Allowing user-centric workflows and enabling human machine...

New report outlines huge value of the defence sector to UK economy

The report has been published by the Joint Economic Data Hub (JEDHub), a collaborative initiative to improve understanding of the defence sector’s contribution to the UK economy and an important deliverable of the 2021 Defence and Security Industrial Strategy (DSIS)....