THE BRITISH ARMY
“ Effectively , we are slowly but surely building a digital picture of the Army ' s readiness across multiple different fronts ”
BRIG . STEFAN CROSSFIELD HEAD OF INFORMATION EXPLOITATION , CDO , DEPUTY CIO , THE BRITISH ARMY
Field Army IX transformation programme & partner reception In terms of digital transformation , Crossfield feels that the Field Army has already travelled a long way down that evolutionary road , “ delivering at pace every single two weeks ” and dropping software into a whole suite of applications effectively .
“ Effectively , we are slowly but surely building a digital picture of the Army ' s readiness across multiple different fronts ,” explains Crossfield . “ Readiness for us is across equipment , people sustainment , and soldiers ’ readiness in terms of how collectively trained they are .
“ We now have a view of all those angles and we ' re bringing them into a single dashboard with an analytics platform sat above it , which will begin to give us those insights about where we need to target activity , whether we could or couldn ’ t deliver against a particular ask or challenge that ' s placed on us .”
But how is the Army able to access the information regarding soldiers ’ training in a simple yet effective way ?
“ We ' ve rolled out a whole new suite of My Series applications in the home command environment ; individual ‘ My Series ’ applications for soldiers to do their administration training have doubled in size .
“ In the Army Personnel Centre , the career management portal – which was in its infancy when we last spoke – is now the de facto way of conducting career management activity , both for the individual and their career manager ( the individual who ' s the leader of that person and the wider chain of command ). The functionality within that portal has meant that endless trips to Glasgow on the Red Eye are fewer and fewer ; we ' re running promotion boards and assignment boards completely virtually , all through that platform .”
The entire career management process can therefore be completed individually , without the need for a Teams ’ event . Instead , “ the platform runs it and soldiers can then interact with the platform ” via scoring , commenting ,
48 January 2023