Sponsoring Niteworks activities
Each
Niteworks project or activity is driven by a question posed
by an MOD customer. These include central MOD staff, DE&S
project teams, Dstl or Front Line Commands. The work
undertaken by Niteworks is tailored to the specific
requirements of the MOD Sponsor, involving military
personnel in current operational roles alongside Niteworks
staff in order to deliver strong, evidenced and impartial
recommendations.
Niteworks operates using a mixed funding model. In simple
terms, this means that it receives core funding from the MOD
budget, which is supplemented by funding from individual MOD
customers who require Niteworks to undertake projects on
their behalf.
Niteworks’ core funding is provided by MOD’s
capability area for Joint Training, Evaluation and
Simulation (Cap JTES) and managed through the DE&S Systems
Engineering and Integration Group (SEIG) whose staff work
alongside the industry, Dstl and military advisers in
Farnborough. The SEIG staff can be contacted for advice on
the tasking of Niteworks and management of its day-to-day
activities. The military staff ensure that Niteworks
projects and activities are informed by the latest military
subject matter expertise and recent operational experience,
whilst Dstl staff ensure coherence with related work
elsewhere in the MOD.
