Advice to MOD
The HFI DTC is working with the Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) Human Factors Team to provide a one-stop shop for HFI support to the acquisition community. The HFI Team was re-launched in December 2008 following a reorganisation at DE&S and now resides within the Systems Engineering Integration Group (SEIG) at MOD Abbey Wood.
The HFI DTC is supporting Project Teams (PTs) and the DE&S Human Factors Team by:
- Providing a ‘One-Stop Shop’ for receiving general HFI enquiries and providing HFI advice.
- Providing independent ‘how-to’ HFI technical expertise to PTs across all three services.
- Helping PTs to understand and apply the HFI policies.
- Developing in-house HFI expertise.
- Using lessons identified to inform MOD HFI policy and process.
- Facilitating a HFI ‘community of interest/practice’ across DE&S.
- Developing accessible guidance material for PTs.
- Facilitating stakeholder engagement for the wider HFI DTC research programme.
- Enabling cultural change within DE&S with the goal of integrating the people component of capability.
- Raising awareness and promoting a pan-MOD approach to HFI.
- Developing the HFI Material for the Acquisition Operating Framework (AOF).
- Providing tailored training modules to PTs.
The HFI DTC personnel deployed into the Joint HF Team will also support the MOD’s Human Capability Research programme by:
- Informing and directing HFI DTC research priorities in response to MOD needs.
- Providing an exploitation route for HFI DTC research outputs.
- Acting as a conduit for industry and academic expertise into the PTs.
- Hosting focused awareness-raising events.
To ensure proper independence and probity, HFI DTC personnel will not:
- Carry out parts of HFI project work that would normally be contracted out via formal ITT.
- Support PTs on competition-sensitive aspects of programmes/bids that could lead to a potential/perceived conflict of interest.
The benefit of this approach is that the HFI DTC programme is providing the MOD with the opportunity to:
- Exploit HFI DTC Subject Matter Expertise to support PTs in implementing HFI.
- Enable earliest exploitation of research outputs.
- Inform & direct prioritisation of HFI research requirements.
- Facilitate cultural change towards seamless integration of the people component of capability.
Looking to the future, the HFI DTC are working with DE&S to launch and coordinate an PT Community of Interest / Practice for HFI in 2009 with the goal of supporting the development of an in-house knowledge base. This forum would be open to all PT members with a HFI role including Project Team Leaders (PTLs), HFI Foci, TLMP representatives, risk managers and those responsible for related project domains including training and safety.
If you would like to know more about this initiative, please contact:
Carole Deighton DESSESEIG-HFI-Con1@mod.uk
Claire Borras DESSESEIG-HFI-Con2@mod.uk
Tel: 030679 34211
