MI5 remembers: Armistice Day 2021
Today, MI5 will be joining people around the UK to remember the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms and protected our way of life.
Updated: Thu Nov 11 2021
HRH The Princess Royal visits MI5
On 27 October MI5 was honoured to receive a visit from HRH The Princess Royal to our London headquarters, Thames House.
Updated: Tue Nov 02 2021
A Service Standard for the Royal Navy
A service standard is a set of design principles to guide delivery teams in creating effective, digital services that provide a consistent experience for the end-user. Royal Navy delivery teams had been working to the Government Service Standard, however some ...
Updated: Thu Oct 14 2021
Three (of many) challenges for becoming a digitally transformed British Army
THEIA, the Army's digital transformation programme, has grown in scope and ambition since I wrote my last Defence Digital blog post. As the Army seeks to continually develop and evolve, I'd like to explore three of the most challenging aspects ...
Updated: Tue Aug 03 2021
Hello World from the Digital Foundry
When we set up the Defence Digital blog in 2019, I couldn't have believed how popular it would become across Defence. From the first blog post with the Royal Navy, to the latest blog from Strategic Command, every part of ...
Updated: Thu Jul 15 2021
Engaging with the Circular Economy: Encouraging the re-use of devices
Even end-of-use Information Technology (IT) has a hidden value that organisations may not have considered, and it's good for the environment too. One element of the Government's approach to digital sustainability is to move towards a circular economy, where product life is maximised through ...
Updated: Tue Jul 13 2021
Understanding online working in Defence: The importance of personas in user research
Since December 2020, the Mission Platform team has been carrying out user research across the Ministry of Defence (MOD). The Mission Platform team's aim is to deliver the next generation of cloud, productivity and collaboration capabilities for the MOD. Our ...
Updated: Thu May 20 2021
Programme THEIA: putting the 'integrated' into the Integrated Review
Last month saw the long anticipated Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy published by the government. Amongst the long-term strategic plans, considerable sums of money, and recognition of how we need to adapt to the changing world, ...
Updated: Mon Apr 19 2021
Readiness Reporting and Deployability Discovery (R2-D2) - the alpha awakens
Back in January 2020, not long after we finished our Discovery sprint, we posted about a project called Readiness Reporting and Deployability Discovery, or R2-D2 for short. On May the 4th (obviously), we established a complete multi-disciplinary delivery team and ...
Updated: Thu Apr 08 2021
Sustaining the fight - what we learned in discovery
In the first of a 3-part series, the Army Design Ops team and Army Digital Services (ADS) Deployed Application Group; who are pioneering user-centred design and design thinking within Defence, share some key insights from working on a discovery phase ...
Updated: Thu Apr 01 2021
Adapting the Government Digital Service Service Standard for Defence
The Government Digital Service (GDS) Service Standard supports the development of consistent and user-friendly end-to-end government digital services and is made up of fourteen points, including 'understand users and their needs' and 'make sure everyone can use the service'. Government ...
Updated: Thu Mar 18 2021
Programme THEIA: Transforming the Army for 2021 and beyond
Unusually for a Defence Digital blog, I've going to start by talking about the culture of the French Artillery at the end of the 19th century and their influence on the Royal Artillery of 1914. And that's because whilst I'm ...
Updated: Wed Mar 17 2021