Strategic Command

Partnering with the The Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub, we have kicked off our STEM and Digital Bursary in Lancashire. This exciting initiative for 16-18 year olds will help create a digital and cyber workforce fit for the future.  💻 The first cohort of 100 students will have access to a broad range of mentoring and development opportunities, including digital learning, as well as financial support and a high-performance laptop. 👥 At the kick-off event in Blackburn, the students heard more about cyber careers, met experts from across government and industry, and took part in a code-cracking challenge and a cyber escape room. Read more about the programme 👉 https://lnkd.in/djD5npU9

Introducing Team UK for the Invictus Games 🇬🇧 27 serving UK Armed Forces personnel and 33 veterans will represent the nation in Vancouver and Whistler in February next year 🇨🇦 Invictus Games is an international adaptive multi-sport event for wounded, injured, and sick personnel, both serving and veterans to participate in as part of their recovery journey. Unveiled today with the Royal British Legion in Milton Keynes, this will be the first Games to include both winter and summer sports 🏆 Two Royal Marines Commando Mountain Leaders were at Milton Keynes today helping Team UK familiarise themselves with cold weather equipment, sharing their expertise and advice for extreme conditions ❄️🏔️ With Team UK to commence training in August for the Invictus Games, Defence Secretary John Healey recognises their unwavering motivation. #InvictusGames #ArmedForcesCommunity #UKVeterans

Wargaming helps us better understand complex problems and improves our ability to make evidence-based decisions faster. Our Defence Experimentation and Wargaming Hub brings together expertise and technology to help us prepare for an increasingly complex security environment. Through simulated scenarios and tabletop exercises, we can explore possible future scenarios, assess the effectiveness of different courses of action, and anticipate emerging threats, all while improving our decision-making ability. 📽️ Find out more about the Defence Experimentation and Wargaming Hub 👇

MOD CIO Charles Forte opens the Team Defence Information Conference with a call for more collaboration within the Defence marketplace. #TDI24

The Defence Academy recently hosted Iraqi MOD members as part of a NATO Mission Iraq Foundational Faculty Development Programme. The Defence Academy workshop was the third and final module of the programme, focusing on the instructional design aspects of developing a lesson. It afforded the opportunity to collaborate and consciously reflect on emerging technologies for education and training, in support of democratic values of defence education for reform. Read more: https://ow.ly/684R50SocJA #workingtogether4iraq #natomissioniraq #WeAreNATO

On Tue 2 Jul 2024, Director General DMS, Air Marshal Clare Walton held her first Director General’s Awards Ceremony, recognising some of the outstanding achievements from the past 12 months and the people who made them happen. Over 100 people attended the ceremony which included award winners, members of their family and friends and DMS personnel. “… in spite all of these challenges we are delivering great things … Thank you to each and every one of you”, DG remarked as she delivered her opening address to colleagues, family and friends who had joined the audience to celebrate and enjoy the occasion. Representing the breadth and variety of work going on in the DMS, awards were given to personnel from all areas of the business, from work in data, operational support, wellbeing projects, education and professional development initiatives and dedication to clinical excellence. Hearing the citations for Individual and Team DG DMS Commendations as well as 4* Commendations, 3* Commendations, Chief of the Field Army Commendations, the Chadwick Military Medal and Prize and The Firmin Sword of Peace as well as a number of MOD Civil Service 40 year Long Service Awards, DG was visibly proud of the DMS workforce that she leads. Congratulations to all awards winners 2024 and thank you to the team for organising a wonderful event.

Recently, we welcomed Comd Training Evaluation, Education, Research & Development Command (TERCOM), Lt Gen Jiro Hiroe along with staff officers from the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force (JGSDF). During their visit they: 👉met with the Director of Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) to hear about the UK’s approach to doctrine, including an overview of what DCDC does, who it operates with and how it contributes to NATO and other partners’ doctrine 👉met with the Chief Executive and Commandant of the Defence Academy (DefAc) to get a brief overview of the UK’s approach to Professional Military Education and how it is delivered at DefAc 👉met with the Japanese course members currently studying at the DefAc (two on ACSC 27, and one on Pre-ACSC 28) 👉were given a talk on the UK’s approach to cyber security and communications architecture, and cyber training as delivered by Defence Cyber Academy This follows a visit earlier this year, made by the Deputy Commandant, Commodore Matthew Solly, to the Japanese Defence Academy to sign a Memorandum of Understanding. These visits are another example of the increasingly strong relationship between the UK and Japan, and professional military education.

🇺🇦 Our support of Ukraine is absolute.     Operation Interflex is the largest military training operation on British soil since the Second World War. It sees recruits from Ukraine with no previous military experience complete five weeks of training to prepare them for conflict, ensuring they have the skills they need to defend their country. This includes weapons handling, battlefield first aid, Law of Armed Conflict training, patrol tactics, rural environment training, mine-clearance, and trauma response.    🇬🇧 Working with 12 partner nations, and with expert coordination from our Permanent Joint Headquarters, over 40,000 Ukrainian soldiers have now been trained in the UK.  Op Interflex helps Ukraine to build their forces and scale-up their resistance as they continue to defend their nation’s sovereignty. This work continues as we #StandWithUkraine.  

We are Strategic Command, helping protect the nation by: 🌐 Leading global operations 💻 Defending the cyber domain 🛰️ Providing cutting edge equipment 🔗 Integrating Defence 🏥 Protecting our Armed Forces #SharpeningDefencesEdge

Armed Forces Day is about celebrating the entire UK Armed Forces community. 🇬🇧 Every sailor, soldier and aviator. Every veteran. Every cadet. Every family member. Who has played a part in protecting our nation, and our allies. 🌍 We salute you this #ArmedForcesDay.