Overview
Would you like to be part of an exciting and fast paced environment, where you get a front row seat on how we develop the Royal Navy’s future warfighting capability? Would you like to be part of team who are committed in supporting Naval operations at home and across the world by changing its platforms and technology? And would you like to be part of a team who encourages innovation to flourish through an inclusive and intellectual safe space? If you do, then please read on as the Develop Directorate might be the right place for you.
The Develop Directorate are a diverse wholeforce workforce, of approximately 200 people who have the responsibility for delivering the future military capability, by crafting first-class project control and management functions across a diverse portfolio which strives to support our operational commitments. We get the opportunity to influence the investment choices around what the military capability does and does not require, at what level of urgency they are needed and to maintain operational effectiveness today and to deliver advantage in the future.
Key Elements
* Reset the Royal Navy, preparing a solid foundation for success within the 2040 timeframe, by making the Navy capable of adapting at pace and scale. The Future Force Mix, Maritime Operating Concept and National Shipbuilding Pipeline will collectively offer a rationalised view of the capability visions for 2040, to define how the maritime force will fight 5 to 15 years ahead.
* Develop and sponsor military capability, translating strategy and policy into capability projects in the Royal Navy portfolio by launching the right change projects/programmes to transition to the future.
* Drive innovation and experimentation to enable the Navy to understand, evaluate and accelerate the exploitation of new and potentially disruptive technologies and practises in order to stay ahead of the threat.
Disruptive Capabilities & Technologies Office (DCTO) is the Royal Navy’s Technology and Innovation team who cohere/coordinate the Royals Navy’s Trials and Experimentation (T&E), research and ideation programs. It facilitates solution engineering and scaling in an accelerated environment, in order to deliver new and disruptive capabilities into the war fighting environment in a coordinated, safe and time critical manner to maintain military advantage and to deliver lethality into the future.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
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