KEYNOTE: THE UK’S DEFENCE ESTATE OPTIMISATION PROGRAMME

• Strategic ambitions aligning with today’s evolving political policy

• Challenges facing the programme

• Response to the Strategic Defence Review

Sherin Aminossehe

Director of Infrastructure
UK Ministry of Defence

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• Ensuring the ability of our Armed Forces to keep nations safe and prosperous through a defence estate that enhances military capability
• Creating a defence estate that better supports our military capability, is better quality, and more efficient: planning, operations, maintenance, and modernisation of fixed installations and facilities
• Meeting the needs of Joint Force 2025, whilst continuing to drive down the cost of operating the estate

• Defence Lines of Development (DLODs)

• The defence estate as a crucial component of military capability

• Understanding the data to ensure evidence-based provision

Shaun Goodman MSc, MInstRE, MAPM

Deputy Head, Defence Availability Centre
UK Defence Equipment & Support

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·      The centrality of the defence estate in the transition to a war economy

·      Future threats to the efficiency of the supply chain

·      What needs to change to cope with supply volatility

Dr. Todd McAllister

Director, Global Supply Chain & Logistics/Professor of Practice
National Defense University *subject to final confirmation

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• Operational readiness in today’s threat context
• Strengthening alliances and partnerships
• Supply chain challenges 

Brigadier Owen Bunkle

Defence Support Head of Strategic Plans and Operations
Strategic Command

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•      Major programmes aligning with the current threat context

•      Supply chain challenges facing the maintenance of defence infrastructure

•      Pathway for the future

Francesco Romano

Programme Manager, Infrastructure and Engineering Office
NSPA

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• Challenging the accepted ‘way’: Utilising modern techniques and technologies to increase the speed at which data is captured (Data mining, AI and Machine Learning).
• Using data to create evidence-based requirements founded on asset management principles.
• Advancing the efficiency of infrastructure operations through the use of this data and technology

Bryn Turner

Infrastructure Data Analyst
UK Ministry of Defence

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·      The importance of clear, strategic planning and policy-making to ensure that the requirements for defence estates are aligned with long-term goals and operational needs.

·      Exploring how modern technologies and innovative solutions can streamline the requirement-setting process, improve accuracy, and reduce costs

·      Identifying and eliminating unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles that slow down decision-making and project implementation

• Ensuring reactive infrastructure capability
• The UK’s overseas bases on the operational estate 
• Challenges facing facilities management overseas

Lieutenant Colonel Gareth Walker

SO1 Infrastructure
Permanent Joint Headquarters

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• Future Defence Infrastructure Services (FDIS) programme
• Challenges facing Hard Facility Management
• Solutions posed by the Crown Commercial Service

Keith Finnigan

Head of Facility Management
Crown Commercial Service

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• Current challenges facing the DIO
• Strategic planning for the future: Offboarding PFI Hard and Soft FM Contracts
• The future Hard FM Strategy and Future Soft FM requirements

Stuart Browse

Deputy Head of Legacy Estates, RD Centre of Excellence
UK Defence Infrastructure Organisation *subject to final confirmation

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