{"id":79418,"date":"2017-03-02T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=19722d8c90335160247ed02db92f5418"},"modified":"2017-03-02T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T14:54:07","slug":"news-story-synthetic-environment-tower-community-of-practice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79418","title":{"rendered":"News story: Synthetic Environment Tower Community of Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (<abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr>) is looking to expand its Synthetic Environment Tower of Excellence (<abbr title=\"Synthetic Environment Tower of Excellence\">SE Tower<\/abbr>) Community of Practice (<abbr title=\"Community of Practice\">COP<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>Since 2004, the <abbr title=\"Synthetic Environment Tower of Excellence\">SE Tower<\/abbr> has provided a mechanism for the Ministry of Defence (<abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr>), industry and academia to work together on areas of research in simulation and synthetic environments. The <abbr title=\"Synthetic Environment Tower of Excellence\">SE Tower<\/abbr> aims to develop UK defence capability in this area, and annually seeks to refresh its relationships with the supplier community by opening the <abbr title=\"Community of Practice\">COP<\/abbr> to new members.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 11 members joined, bringing our total membership to 49, benefiting from twice-yearly Information Exchange Events (<abbr title=\"Information Exchange Events\">IEE<\/abbr>) and access to the Shared Working Environment. The next event is planned for Wednesday 10 May 2017 where <abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr> will once again be looking at ways to increase the mutual understanding and co-operation between the <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr> and the sector.<\/p>\n<p>Simulation and synthetic environments are used by <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr> in a variety of ways, from supporting training, concept development and experimentation, to acquisition, evaluation and mission preparation.<\/p>\n<p>We are now accepting applications to join the <abbr title=\"Synthetic Environment Tower of Excellence\">SE Tower<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"Community of Practice\">COP<\/abbr> until Friday 7 April 2017. Application forms can be found at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/dstl-synthetic-environment-tower-of-excellence-se-tower\"><abbr title=\"Synthetic Environment Tower of Excellence\">SE Tower<\/abbr> website<\/a> along with more information on the <abbr title=\"Community of Practice\">COP<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is looking to expand its Synthetic Environment Tower of Excellence (SE Tower) Community of Practice (COP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}