Babcock’s Managing Director of Technology, Jon Hall, is the new Chair of Team Defence Information, (TDI). TDI is responsible for uniting the UK’s defence industry to collaborate, develop and share best practice, support research into innovation and technology, and support the UK Government and MOD.In this first podcast, Jon talks to Phil Williams, Managing Director of TDI, about how Babcock is adapting to working in different ways, the growing importance of technology and sustainability and what industry can do to attract and engage the next generation of engineers to their business.Babcock is also actively engaged with TDI across a number of forums including the Joint Information Group, the Defence & Industry Support Chain Optimisation Group, and more recently, the newly established Sustainability Steering Group. As well as being the Chair of TDI, Jon is part of the executive group in the Defence Suppliers’ Forum, a key conduit for MoD/industry relationships and shared objectives.Jon joined Babcock in 2008 as MD of Technology and is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and holds a PhD from Bath University for research work in digital modelling and optimisation of integrated systems.“Babcock likes to work in collaborative spaces and our partnership with TDI brings many elements of Babcock’s expertise together, from strategy to sustainability to engaging the next generation of engineers.“We’ve learned to adapt and operate, very successfully and often in challenging situations, over the past few months and that just highlights why successful partnerships matter to us.”Phil Williams welcomed Jon to his new role."I am delighted to welcome Dr Jon Hall as the Chairman of Team Defence Information. He brings with him a wealth of experience in the “Defence” world and his reputation for collaboration across the Industry partners plays well into the hand that TDI shares.The past few months has seen the acceleration of the adoption of news ways of working and doing business and has only served to highlight the focus on data and its exploitation, a “digital backbone” that connects MOD and Industry and the need to embrace robust through life support strategies.Given the above, I believe the role of TDI in helping to deliver UK defence capability is more relevant than ever and I trust the ensuing discussion will give some guidance on how this is to be achieved."Babcock is the second largest supplier in the UK to the MOD, providing support to all three British Armed Services. Babcock also has an established presence in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and France and supports submarine programmes in South Korea and Spain. It is a core member of the UK Defence Growth Partnership.For more information on Babcock International Group visit www.babcockinternational.com for more information about TDI visit www.teamdefence.info See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Innovation&Information, the podcast from Team Defence

A discussion with Dr Jon Hall, Babcock’s Managing Director of Technology and the new Chair of TD-Info

Additive Manufacturing - an introduction to the approach taken by the British Army. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

AdM Army HQ Capability Investigation

This podcast episode features audio taken from a recent Research and Innovation workshop run by Team Defence. For more information, please see the Team Defence website. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Additive Manufacturing in Defence, presented by CREAT3D

Additive Manufacturing in Defence, presented by Ultimaker

The mission set out by the Common Mission Project is to create an international network of entrepreneurs driven to solve the critical challenges of our time—from national security to natural disasters, from energy to the environment.Dr Ali Hawks talks to Luca about the H4MOD initiative and how it is supporting the UK MOD. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An Interview with Dr Ali Hawks

The Turing Trust supports education in sub-Saharan Africa by reusing computers and improving teacher training using ICT.They provide skills development in the UK while reducing waste and contributing to an environmentally friendly society.They have reused over 4,200 PCs enabling more than 41,000 students to gain a digital education.To support their work, please visit https://turingtrust.co.uk/. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An Interview with James Turing

Major General Tom Copinger-Symes CBE commissioned into The Royal Green Jackets in 1992. His operational experience includes Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. As Commanding Officer of 5 Rifles, he deployed to Afghanistan on Op HERRICK 15. Having held a wide variety of staff appointments working across everything from enduring campaigns, UK resilience, counter terrorism and defence engagement he was selected to command 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade in 2014 before becoming the Assistant Chief of Staff (Operations) in Army HQ. In 2017 he led the Information Manoeuvre Project Team before being selected as GOC Force Troops Command.  He assumed his current appointment as Director Military Digitisation in UK Joint Forces Command in August 2019. For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy

An Interview with Major General Tom Copinger-Symes CBE

Audio taken from the Sustainable ICT Workshop run as part of the virtual DI20 conference. The slides shared are available from the Team Defence Information website, to be involved in the Sustainable ICT project or the more broad Sustainability Thread run by Team Defence, please contact Luca Leone. For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy

Sustainable ICT Project - Part of the DI20v Programme

A welcome from Phil Williams, the Team Defence Information Managing Director. This is the first in a series of audio bulletins that will be released over the course of April to mark our virtual Defence Information Conference. For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy

A Virtual Welcome to DI20v

Today we have a guest podcast from our friends at the Aerospace Engineering Podcast that was recently published covering Team Defence. More details are available here: https://aerospaceengineeringblog.com/aerospace-engineering-podcast/More details on the InVan Conference can be found here: https://secure.teamdefence.info/community.php?sid=e4707a2fee9970ac7c308c0b6cf46649&community=1000116

Guest Podcast: Digitisation at Rolls Royce and the Information Vanguard Conference from the Aerospace Engineering Podcast

An interview with Nigel Whitehead, TDI Chair and BAE CTO, covering Team Defence, Tempest, Urban Air Mobility and many other topics.

A discussion with Nigel Whitehead, Team Defence Information Chair and BAE Systems Chief Technology Officer

This podcast is part of a series of audio recordings taken from the LogNet 18-2 conference organised by Defence Logistics and supported by Team Defence Information. The audio was recorded live and so in places might contain some background noise, quality can be improved by listening through headphones.For more information on LogNet including the relevant slides, as well as information on other conferences supported by Team Defence, please visit www.teamdefence.info . For more information on the I&I Podcast, including suggestions for future topics, please contact luca.leone@teamdefence.info. 

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