Defence College for Military Capability Integration

The Defence Capability Management School (DCMS) provides capability development training and education to MOD personnel to enhance capability acquisition and management outcomes. 
In partnership with academia, the school provides a range of learning opportunities from short online familiarisation courses up to master’s level degrees - including specialist technical education in selected areas.

DCMS has four main areas of focus:

• capability acquisition - providing a pathway of role specific training aimed at improving acquisition related knowledge and skills of personnel across the MOD
• technology integration/ specialist technologies - providing technical education in priority areas
• technical assurance
• innovation

Defence WOME Engineering School educates defence personnel in the first principles of WOME (Weapons, Ordnance, Munitions or Explosives) to allow future threats to the country’s safety to be assessed and reduced.

We deliver fundamental education to ensure safety in explosives, lasers, and petrochemicals at home, on operations and across defence.

Our courses are delivered through a blended model of classroom, explosive and small arms practicals, and laboratory work.

DWES works in collaboration with industry, partners across government (PAG) and the military within the explosive safety industry. The pinnacle of this is the research and development conducted on the Explosive Ordnance Engineering MSc course. Industry partners provide DWES students topics to research and feedback on within their 12 months on the course, enhancing their knowledge on current threats and capabilities.

To assist DWES in its outputs is the Light Weapons Wing, which is staffed by subject matter experts (SME) in small arms, who have approximately 1400 different types of small arms spanning from a Brown Bess Musket to the latest belt fed machine gun.  These SMEs not only assist in the educational delivery but support multiple PAGs as bespoke consultants for operations, training and research and development.

The Joint Information Activities Group (JIAG) trains around 650 personnel a year in a variety of communications disciplines, ranging from working with the media to information operations, audience analysis, operational-level planning and psychological operations. 
It provides direct support to defence collective training activities and supports capacity building through individual advisers and bespoke training packages, both in the UK and overseas. Details of it courses can be found in 2024DIN07-139 on MODNET. They include the following:

•    Joint Information Activities Course
•    Joint Information Operations Planning Course
•    Audience Analysis Course
•    Joint Media Practitioners’ Course
•    Joint Media Operations Planning Course
•    Joint Digital Media Course
•    Defence Spokesperson Course

The aim of the Defence Airworthiness and AeroSystems Technology School (DAATS) is to prepare UK and overseas military officers, senior non-commissioned officers, and civil servants for demanding aviation-related roles in support of aviation duty holders. This is required by the Military Aviation Authority and was recommended by Lord Justice Haddon-Cave QC following the loss of Nimrod XV230.

DAATS, in partnership with Cranfield University, is responsible for delivering courses up to and including postgraduate level. The portfolio is mostly centred on preparing selected students for a variety of specialist roles in military airworthiness, test and evaluation, capability and acquisition.

Courses within DAATS portfolio are as follows:

• Military Aerospace and Airworthiness Scheme (options include attending modules on a stand-alone basis and studying for a MSc (part-time))
• AeroSystems Course (options include graduating with the award of QAS and studying for the MSc)
• Airworthiness of Military Aircraft – fundamentals module

The Defence Wargaming, Modelling and Simulation School (DWMSS) provides education for all ranks, at every operational level, on all aspects of wargaming, simulation, modelling.

Simulation, modelling, operational analysis, research and wargaming offer the ability to deliver value to defence at all levels, by permitting the examination of systems, processes and equipment in a repeatable manner that is safe, cheaper, and with a much-reduced impact on the environment, than using real equipment.

More than 60% of the MOD’s regular training activities can benefit from modelling and simulation. The school delivers courses up to postgraduate level in simulation, modelling, and operational analysis/research.

In addition, we provide advice and demonstrations on the use of wargaming to MOD, other government departments and worldwide to other partner governments and agencies. 

The Defence Digital and Information School (DDIS) provides information, knowledge, data and digital education and training to approximately 2,000 students per year, made up of civil servant and military knowledge and information (KIM) professionals, across a 1-star to OR2 rank range.

Our courses prepare students for courses for the JSP 441 specified roles of senior information officers, information managers, information support officers, information support assistants, records managers, and freedom of information practitioners.

DDIS is the only specialist KIM training school in the MOD, with our courses delivered residentially and virtually, using the Defence Learning Environment and Microsoft Teams. Training can also be delivered by franchises which have suitably qualified and experienced instructors.

The Defence Cyber Academy, opened in 2022, provides training and education that develops a highly skilled, global cyber community for UK defence and partners.

Utilising modern tools and techniques, we offer flexible and accessible training to UK military, government partners, industry and non-government departments. Where appropriate, the DCA also provides international cyber training products and services to international partners and allies.

We provide expert training to the whole force, teaching essential cyber elements and skills, in a step-by-step approach, to work successfully in cyber-related roles, protecting defence’s networks and contributing to wider UK security.

Our purpose is to develop defence personnel to achieve success in cyber operations and leadership in government.

The Defence STEM Undergraduate Sponsorship (DSUS) scheme works with the military and MOD Civil Service to encourage the recruitment of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) undergraduates into critical roles within defence to sustain the MOD’s requirements for technical specialists, shaping the next generation of talent and skills in response to the pace of change in military capabilities, technology and cyber.

As part of the scheme students on a military sponsorship will join their respective university service unit (University Royal Naval Unit, University Officer Training Corp and University Air Squadron) with the aim of familiarising themselves with military life. Those joining as a MOD civil servant sponsored student will be offered 6-week paid summer placements to support familiarisation with their sponsoring employers who may be but not limited to, Defence Nuclear Enterprise, Dstl and Chief of Defence Logistics and Support.

The scheme is open to undergraduates studying STEM subject in universities across the UK. Successful applicants will be provided with a financial package which includes payment of tuition fees (where applicable) along with an annual bursary or paid placement and additional benefits. Upon graduation applicants will be guaranteed a position of employment within their sponsoring organisation as an officer within the military or as a higher executive officer within the Civil Service.