Not SDR – the Industry view of capability planning to meet 2025’s challenges

This July’s annual Defence Information workshop – “A new era for Defence: what MOD wants from Industry; what Industry needs from MOD” – is an early opportunity to help shape the post-SDR relationship between front-line users of military capability and its industrial suppliers. With the actual SDR not now expected to report before June, we are planning a couple of, intentionally one-sided, seminar/webinars to collate an Industry view of what the capability element of SDR might contain if Industry were writing it.

Two sessions are planned for 1 May – 0900-1000 and 1300-1400 – each with the following outline agenda:

• Introduction – to include the environmental changes driving the need for a new approach
• Accelerated acquisition/procurement: responding to environmental changes and increased threat levels
• Best-practice from non-Defence industries: eg health, oil & gas etc
• Measuring agility as a KPI: agility more complex than company size
• Implications for managing delivery risk: consequences of failure – benefits of success

(Note that the pm webinar will start with a synopsis of key points from the am session)

A lot to get through in an hour so meetings may run on longer if members wish; however, the agenda topics will each be covered within the first hour. Please register at the links to the side of this page.

C. 12 places will be available for members wishing to join the discussions in-person at the TD-Info Office in  Briarlands Office Park, BS35 3QH.

Contact Tony for more information (tony.butler@teamdefence.info).