Dan Leedham

Flight Test Engineer & Technologist.

Country music, liberty & plenty of coffee.

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[Dan Leedham @danleedham]

"[Combat Cloud] NEXUS & RAVEN are flexible, secure, proven & have been developed in-house by the RAF at a fraction of the cost of comparators. Because we developed in-house, it is open and available to our allies and partners." #GlobalAirSpaceChiefs 🧑‍💻🚀👌 https://t.co/iGAUvX54b4

[Dan Leedham @danleedham]

"Don't hide your nerds in the basement!" @KuhtJames arguing #GlobalAirSpaceChiefs should put digital and data ninjas as close to problems as possible, including on operations. "It's time to move from data demos to data dominance" @airpowerassn

[Dan Leedham @danleedham]

We've been asked how we are managing to deliver with digital innovation in Defence. An excellent primer on many of the lessons we have also learned: Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy https://t.co/qC39piXu6G

[Dan Leedham @danleedham]

Now's the time to make a series of big bets on nuclear power. It was the UK that first split the atom. It was the UK that had the first civilian nuclear power plant. It's time we recovered our lead. For consumers, the environment and freedom itself.

https://t.co/6UjJF53qzL

[Dan Leedham @danleedham]

"Now it's the software as much as the hardware that is determining whether we can compete, operate and win in a much more complex and grey world..." Time for Software to have it's own DLOD on par with "Equipment"?

[Cyber & Specialist Operations Command @CSOC_MOD]

The first episode of the new @MODdigitalHQ podcast series featuring @tomcopsymes and CIO Charlie Forte is now available.

They talk the importance of utilising data and how the rise of the 'grey zone' has changed how we operate in Defence.

Watch: https://t.co/tgsdlgoV7j

[Dan Leedham @danleedham]

How the grassroots Marine Software Developers leverage DevSecOps to rapidly solve real world military problems: https://t.co/na2suLt0m5

[Jim Perkins @jim_perkins1]

While the Army and Air Force have launched software teams with fanfare and funding, the Marine Corps experience has been more like a bootstrapped startup. Learn about how grassroots group of USMC coders came together & got 3-star level buy-in for a recent innovation challenge.

[Royal Air Force @RoyalAirForce]

In today’s episode of #InsideAIR meet the Astra Appivate team who develop mobile applications for the RAF. Learn how advances in Artificial Intelligence and innovative app design will shape the future of mobile tech.

Listen now https://t.co/cZTLnwxydS #Astra #InnovateCodeSucceed

[tomcopsymes @tomcopsymes]

Great opportunity - "we need Qs as well as 007s" (and / or Mavericks and Buzz Lightyears).... This must rate as one of the most exciting CDIO roles available. Details at link below. #astra

[Dan Leedham @danleedham]

Technology may not win wars anymore, but innovation can—particularly if one side is fighting an existential battle.

https://t.co/GwZvlAS6Nj

[Dan Leedham @danleedham]

"We will no longer limit your options for future employment by stove-piped trade group or branch. Instead, we will employ you based on what you can do, and the value that offers to the RAF & Defence."
Time to unleash the "Aviator Coder" insurgency https://t.co/a8oJ36Ofbz

[Dan Leedham @danleedham]

"Our processes, policies and thinking are formed from years of hardware driven work and we now need to move to software driven thinking. We need to stop talking about atoms and start talking about bytes." @HeadRAFRCO at #GlobalAirChiefs

[Dan Leedham @danleedham]

Bang on from experience, Sir: youngsters who are genuine digital natives enter Defence and feel they're stepping back in time... Many of them are coders and are looking to get unleashed, but also be given the tools to use and share their code with other sides of Defence.

[tomcopsymes @tomcopsymes]

Really enjoyed this session at @CogX_Festival discussing how AI and digital is changing how we (and our adversaries) operate and fight. And explaining what we are doing about it across @DefenceHQ

[James Kuht MBE @KuhtJames]

Bonus episode of Reimagining Defence out now, interviewing the inimitable @cdbrose.

Fill up that Sunday evening bath and get it playing, Chris is brilliant mind.

[Reimagining Defence Podcast @ReDefPod]

Our interview with Chris Brose, author of 'The Kill Chain'.

We discuss military's getting their asses handed to them, hunger games for loitering munitions and how Special Forces will be the battle lab that helps us pathfind our way to a new future. https://t.co/mAjo9Hf1yK

[jHub Innovation @JHubDefence]

Are you digitally minded? Do you want to come work on @UKStratCom and @DefenceHQs most complex and challenging problems? Then come work for #jHubDigital https://t.co/DRgD5xDUH9

[Jethro F Elsden @JethroFElsden]

Here's me writing in The Spectator about the lessons of the postwar recovery, and why opting for the state over the market as we did then would be a serious mistake.
The big state won't save our post-Covid world https://t.co/LorWfXTeYm via @spectator

[James Kuht MBE @KuhtJames]

Honour of my career to brief @ChiefofAirStaff alongside fellow Aviator Coders @danleedham & @Peter_Kenners today.

Raising a glass to the future of the #NextGenRAF - may it be data-driven and software-centred! 💪

[James Kuht MBE @KuhtJames]

When we built the @JHubDefence coding scheme 2yrs ago, this was always the vision, that it’s graduates would build the future of defence.

Massive props to @danleedham and @Peter_Kenners for turning their skills into results 💪👏

Ideas are easy, execution is everything.

[Royal Air Force @RoyalAirForce]

Apps are revolutionising the way the Royal Air Force meets ever-changing threats and operational demands.

Empowering our people through #RAFAstra to imagine and develop tailored, innovative solutions enables us to compete and win.

#NextGenRAF #NoOrdinaryJob