Editorial

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Following the news about how H4MoD is changing British Professional Military Education, we caught up with Dr Ali Hawks who oversees the H4MoD programme in order to understand recent development, the impact of COVID-19 and the expansion of the "H4X" methodology.

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‘Why does our world continue to unfold in an irregular, disorderly, unpredictable manner, even though some of our best minds try to represent it as being more regular, orderly, and predictable?’

As part of our ongoing research into innovation and enterprise transformation in Defence, Defence iQ's Editor spoke to the Director of Mage Control Systems to talk all things engineering, innovation and ideation.

Defence iQ spoke with AI SME and defence innovator, Rowden Technologies, ahead of their participation in the annual Disruptive Technology for Defence Transformation conference. 11 quick fire questions ahead!

As part of our ongoing research into innovation and enterprise transformation in Defence, Defence iQ's Editor spoke to Alice Bromage to talk all things leadership, culture and understanding strategic intent to foster meaningful innovation in Defence.

As part of our ongoing research into innovation and enterprise transformation in Defence, Defence iQ's Editor spoke to the UK's High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVM Catapult) about how they are helping UK Defence bridge the 'valley of death' and ensure continuous and rapid technology pull through,

As part of Defence iQ's ongoing research into innovation and enterprise transformation in Defence, we spoke to representatives from Roke Manor, UK Defence R&D leader, to find out how they use user-focused problem solving to innovate and their view on how digital technology will transform operations.

The UK’s COVID-19 response involves a myriad of stakeholders, including the Armed Forces who have been tasked with providing logistical support and strengthening the capacity of the NHS. I spoke with LtGen James Bashall (Ret), former Commander Home Command, to get his perspective on the UK response.

Recognising that military technological superiority is no longer a reality, UK Defence leadership has embraced ‘innovation’ and ‘digital transformation’ as the processes by which the Armed Forces and the Defence and Technology Industrial Base can build and sustain capability advantage.