It’s been a busy year for us at DIO. From supporting the Coronation of King Charles III to supplying more than 20,000kg of turkey to Armed Forces personnel over Christmas, our teams have been working hard to help our Armed …
Exercise Cerberus 22 was the Army’s largest and most ambitious Field Army exercise in Europe for a decade. With 3,500 soldiers and 800 vehicles involved the exercise provided the opportunity to test the five different Brigade Headquarters within the Warfighting …
Greetings from Europe! Many of you won’t have heard of the DIO European Support Group (ESG), headquartered in Mons, Belgium.
Hi, I’m Mark Duddy and I’m the DIO Programme Director for the Army Basing Programme (ABP). If you are a regular reader of the blog you will know that ABP is an infrastructure-led change programme for the Army that commenced …
DIO has had a busy year, living up to our aim of supporting Defence by leading and managing the delivery of what the Armed Forces need to live, work, train and deploy. 2015 has seen the completion of several major …
Hi, I’m Roy Coleman, a DIO Senior Estate Surveyor. I’m based in Germany and currently working on the military withdrawal from bases in Germany to return to the UK under the Army 2020 plan. As the British Forces Germany (BFG) …
Hi, I’m Air Vice Marshall Elaine West, DIO’s Director of Projects and Programme Delivery (PPD). In contrast to most of the other members of the Senior Leadership Team who’ve been blogging lately, I’m not new to DIO. In fact, I’ve …
Last summer, participants on Operation Nightingale recovered the remains of Spitfire P9503 on Salisbury Plain. This was part of a project to provide two case studies of best recovery practice to English Heritage. The second of these recoveries is taking …
Last year, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced the Regular Army Basing Plan. This will see the return of some 15,000 Service personnel to the UK from Germany by 2020, concentrating the Army’s manpower in seven geographic areas. These are Salisbury …
I’m David Batchelor, DIO’s Drawdown Programme Manager, based in Germany. As you probably know, British forces have been based in Germany since the end of World War II. Until last year, there were about 20,000 troops stationed in the country, …
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