Portsmouth Is Ready – Looking Back with Pride on DIO’s Vital Role
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...than any previous Royal Navy vessel. DIO’s Role DIO exists to allow the military to safely live, work, train and deploy. The work on HMNB Portsmouth has been one of...
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Restoring a monument to its former glory
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Richard Osgood, Posted on:
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Categories:
Army Basing Programme, Communications, Environment and Ecology, Military Training
![Bulford Kiwi chalk monument, Salisbury Plain [Crown copyright/MOD]](https://insidedio.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/10/Bulford-Kiwi-2.jpeg)
...historical and scientific interest. My name is Richard Osgood and I am one of four archaeologists working for DIO. Our role is to protect, maintain and advise on monuments across...
Army Basing Masterplan to build sustainable communities and homes
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Dr Sue Jordan, Posted on:
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Categories:
Accommodation, Archaeology, Army Basing Programme, Communications, Environment and Ecology
![Dr Sue Jordan at Bulford [Crown Copyright, MOD 2017]](https://insidedio.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2017/11/Sue-at-Bulford-TVA-Nov-17-768x1024.jpg)
...undertaken by WYG and Wessex Archaeology, working with Wiltshire Council and Heritage England. Discoveries included Neolithic Henges, WWI practice trenches and an extensive Saxon cemetery where one of the burials...
Revealing the secrets of Cyprus: Ancient Akrotiri Project
![The Ancient Akrotiri Project team excavating one of the Roman buildings at Dreamer's Bay. [Crown Copyright, MOD 2017]](https://insidedio.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/01/Akrotiri-blog-2.jpg)
...the sea could mean it was used in some sort of defensive capacity. Further excavation is being done to gather more information. The Ancient Akrotiri Project team excavating one of...
Reflecting on Women in Defence and International Women's Day
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...this is changing. In the last six months alone, I have moved from being just one of two women on our Executive Committee, to now being one of five. This...
Getting battle ready with BATUS
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...informal note, I have learned: Don’t think you know better than an instructor, especially one who has climbed Mt Everest. If you are given Army kit to keep you warm...
A small but growing project with rare moths
...one of the rarest moths found in Essex. As Fingringhoe Ranges sits between the largest population of these moths located on Skipper’s Island Nature Reserve, which has a risk to...
Kick start your career in Defence with a DIO apprenticeship
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Helen Hall, Posted on:
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Categories:
Apprentices, Army Basing Programme, Engineering, RAF Lakenheath, United States Visiting Forces Infrastructure Programme, Working at DIO
As an apprentice at DIO, you'll get the opportunity to travel across the Defence estate. Here's a picture from one of our apprentices who visited Holywell Bay in Cornwall, which...
Science, data and DIO
...see how the Defence estate is constantly changing and evolving. One day I could be creating data categories for the data warehouse, which is not a building but a way...
DIO's award-winning archaeologist
...open field, with good company, testing one’s mind and body. Several of the WIS participants on the programme have gone on to study for degrees, to work as professional archaeologists...