38 NAVY NEWS, JULY 2008
News and information for serving personnel
Academic
initiative is
aimed at
skills gaps
EVERYONE in acquisition can
now benefit from a range of specific
training and education, to be
delivered by the Defence Academy
as part of the Defence Acquisition
Change Programme (DACP).
The Defence College of
Management and Technology
(DCMT), part of the Defence
Academy, spearheads education
and training in support of the
Defence Industrial Strategy, and
is at the forefront of a programme
to upskill the acquisition sector,
working in partnership with
Cranfield University and Logica.
It is aimed at addressing gaps
in project delivery skills across the
wider acquisition community.
The initiative went live in April,
and includes a range of approaches ● Royal Marines of 42 Commando clear Taliban hideouts in Helmand province in Afghanistan
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such as e-learning and workshops.
The focus is on training at
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for staff in key roles, according ng
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Programme (DAMEP).
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FIGHTING Spirit – not appraisals and naval charities. rncom.mod.uk or www.nff.
and their families
and contributes to the Professional al
The PSB and the 2-6 DVD org.uk, and also via the RN
Skills for Government agenda.
the first DVD with this
are a joint package to support Intranet at the Fleet Internal
One of the benefits of the new w
theme, but one which
your Divisional Meetings and Communication Hub at http://
system – building on the success ss
bears a look if you are in
will be obtainable from mid-July; royalnavy.defence.mod.uk/
of the Commercial Awareness and nd the Naval Service.
copies will be available from your fleetcc/IC%20hub.htm.
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Practitioner Programme – is that it it Because fighting spirit is
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Divisional Officer or EWO. If you have a message that
makes awareness and practitioner er the main focus of the latest
You can view this DVD and you would like to send to the
training available to far morere 2-6 DVD, out this month,
archived copies via the RN RN or would like to feature in the 02392 589504.
people, wherever based, without ut supporsup ted by the Summer ’08
Community website (www. 2-6 DVD ‘Your Shout’ section, marina Meet the Divisional and
draining travel budgets. Personnel Support Brief (PSB).
This flexibility is particularly
Astute
The feature looks at what it
rncom.mod.uk) and the PSB contact Lt Cdr Gregor Birse at Regimental Support Team next
is available online now at www. Gregor.birse922@mod.uk or month
important as demand increases, means to the Royal Navy and Royal
especially at awareness level, Marines, how it is engendered and
for training across the PPM/
blocks
how it is nurtured.
Commercial/ILS/TLCM The film looks at aspects of
disciplines, where the capacity training and operations where this
of the training deliverers would
arrive
spirit is invaluable, and what it
simply not have been sufficient. means to sailors.
The flexible approach also A group of modern matelots
allows individuals to study at their
SHE may be the epitome
watched a screening of The Cruel
own pace.
of advanced maritime
Sea to compare the wartime spirit
The e-learning component is
technology, but HMS Astute
with today.
always available for refresher study
will be relying on almost
And a new initiative, under
and, once someone has completed
four dozen large blocks of
which wartime veterans are invited
this, an automated notification
wood for her safety when
to talk to young personnel, was
will be sent to them when any
she arrives on the Clyde.
also highlighted.
topic they have studied has been
The new attack submarine
The PSB also covers topics such
significantly updated.
will be put on to the Faslane
as Project Fisher, the Armed Forces
The innovative way that much
shiplift soon after she
Act 2006 – Summary Discipline,
of the training is delivered should
arrives at the base, and
the increase to the commitment
also make it easier for industry to
the wood – in the form of
bonus, affordable housing, JPA
participate in this programme.
carefully-crafted ‘cappers’
As the demands on people’s time
– will ensure Astute is safely
increases, so does the need for
supported on the lift.
● HMS Exeter in action during
the flexibility in the way that the
Blocks of Douglas fir are
an anti-air exercise
training is delivered, while providing
used because the wood
Picture: LA (PHOT) Luis Holden
enhanced opportunities for staff to
can withstand high load
gain professional qualifications and
pressures, and the £150,000 Admiral goes
formal accreditation contributing
investment is seen as a vital
to the Professional Skills for
part of the preparations for
back to school
Government agenda.
Astute’s arrival.
It will further enhance the
Also taking shape a little
THE Chief of the Naval Staff of
content of the second edition of
further up the Clyde is the
Pakistan was on familiar territory
the Guide to Acquisition Training
floating Valiant Jetty, which
when he visited RNAS Culdrose.
and Education (GATE), due out
will support the Astute-
For Admiral Muhammed
last month, which sets out the 300
class boats.
Afzal Tahir did his Observer and
main acquisition courses available.
The jetty is under
Helicopter Warfare Instructor
GATE is at www.defac.ac.uk/
construction at Inchgreen
courses at the Cornish air station
dcmt and more information can
in Greenock, and will cost
in the 1970s.
be found at the same site or at
£150 million.
Culdrose regularly conducts
www.dalearning.org.uk
When completed later this
training for Pakistani air engineer
year it will be towed from
officers, and has in the past carried
Greenock to the Gareloch
out aircrew training courses in the
to be put in place.
Sea King simulator.
Astute will be the first
The admiral was briefed on the
of four boats to be based
role and capability of Culdrose
on the Clyde, her sisters
by Capt Philip Thicknesse, CO of
being Ambush, Artful and
the base, and toured some of the
Audacious.
training facilities, including 750
● Young sailors and new recruits now get the chance to listen to the experiences of war veterans
NAS, home of observer training.
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