![A summary of some of the bigger DIO success stories from year. [Crown Copyright/MOD 2017]](https://insidedio.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/12/2017-Year-in-Review.jpg)
...to Lovell to build 917 new houses on Salisbury Plain for military families moving to the area under the Army Basing Programme. Working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, we...
...This £19m contract with VolkerStevin is part of a £180m overall investment by DIO to improve facilities on the Islands over the next 10 years. Additional works include improvements to...
![Dartmoor Warbler [Copyright, Creative Commons 2018]](https://insidedio.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/05/Dartmoor-Warbler-2017.jpg)
...work DIO has done to protect our most important wildlife site, the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area (SPA). Castle Bottom, Yateley Photo [© Diane Sambrook (cc-by-sa/2.0) via http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/646755] In...
![Jonathan Pepper with an owl. [All rights reserved]](https://insidedio.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/06/20160730_113125-1-1024x830.jpg)
...to DIO’s conservation efforts on Salisbury Plain. The data collected is also sent to DIO and the British Trust for Ornithology and is used for national statistics on bird populations....
...vehicles will help to provide a safe place for our troops to train and ensure that the public can use the Plain safely for legal leisure and recreational activities. The...
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...the best for Defence. For example, we have to consider the effects of heat and insect infestation in electrical systems in tropical places like Belize, and in Nepal we have...
...Project [Crown Copyright/MOD2018] Individual Achievement Award Major Tony Canniford, DIO’s Head of Establishment for Ballykinler and Magilligan Training Centre won the award for implementing wildlife protection initiatives including the re-introduction...
...involved in the building phase include approximately 30 women who are working in traditionally male dominated trades, including electrical and plastering work. To ensure that all employees are operating in...
...to work together? This phrase is often used in the world of business but achieving good working relationships requires more than a friendly handshake over a cup of coffee! It...
...runway for six months to allow the work to take place. The work that we are completing is significant and includes improving drainage and installing new arrestor beds to improve...