Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you’re bound to have heard something about War Horse. It started life as a children’s book by Michael Morpurgo, about the wartime experiences of a horse named Joey …
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 …
Hi. I’m Steve Jeffries and as well as being the Project Manager for the new Defence Technical Training College at MOD Lyneham, about which I've already blogged, I’m also the Team Leader for Project WINFRA. WINFRA is an exciting and ambitious project …
Hello, I’m Colin Wood, DIO’s Chief Operating Officer - newly arrived as part of the organisation’s Strategic Business Partner integration. I’m really excited and proud to be a part of DIO going forward. Some of this is not new to …
My name is Richard Trevor and I’m Director of Transformation and Change at DIO. I started in this role on 3 September 2014 as a part of the DIO’s Strategic Business Partner team. Before taking on this role, I led …
Hello, I’m Richard McCarthy, Chief Executive of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO). Today is my first day in this role under DIO’s new strategic business partnering arrangements. I’m proud to take on the leadership of DIO and delighted to have …
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 …
I’m Jon Butler and I work as a Quantity Surveyor and Project Manager on Project SLAM, an ongoing programme of work to provide improved Single Living Accommodation for non-married military personnel. Sometimes this is done by designing and building whole …
Did you know that the British Army has an establishment in Kenya? It's called the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK). Staff come from the Army, other branches of the MOD including DIO, and some are what we call locally-employed …
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you won’t have missed that the Tour de France 2014 kicked off in Yorkshire.