{"id":92717,"date":"2018-06-11T14:28:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T14:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e4ff7f948596d8eb749d9469da3f13ad"},"modified":"2018-06-11T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T14:28:46","slug":"news-story-minister-for-defence-procurement-visits-jfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=92717","title":{"rendered":"News story: Minister for Defence Procurement visits JFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>This was the minister\u2019s first visit to <abbr title=\"Joint Forces Command\">JFC<\/abbr> since starting in his role 5 months ago.  During his visit, the minister heard about the important contribution that <abbr title=\"Joint Forces Command\">JFC<\/abbr> makes towards defence and how it works with the single services.<br \/>\nThe minister was briefed on the role that <abbr title=\"Joint Forces Command\">JFC<\/abbr> plays in driving defence innovation, especially through work being carried out by the jHub. He recognised the enabling capability that <abbr title=\"Joint Forces Command\">JFC<\/abbr> provides and highlighted the criticality of innovation to defence<\/p>\n<p>During his visit, the minister held a meeting with military and civilian staff based at the Northwood site. He took the opportunity to praise the work undertaken across <abbr title=\"Joint Forces Command\">JFC<\/abbr>, especially around integration and commented that <abbr title=\"Joint Forces Command\">JFC<\/abbr> is the glue that brings the whole of defence together.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing recent humanitarian efforts undertaken by the UK armed forces, such as after Hurricane Irma, the minister congratulated <abbr title=\"Joint Forces Command\">JFC<\/abbr> on helping coordinate the UK response. He expanded further, confirming one of <abbr title=\"Joint Forces Command\">JFC<\/abbr>\u2019s key roles is to ensure strong integration and co-ordination. He also shared that <abbr title=\"Joint Forces Command\">JFC<\/abbr> is an important enabler within defence when it comes to working with our international partners.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he opened a discussion with members of the audience, covering subjects including the growing importance of space to UK defence and the need through Modernising Defence Programme for defence to deliver in an increasingly agile manner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 4 June 2018, Guto Bebb, Minister for Defence Procurement, visited Joint Forces Command (JFC)  to meet with General Sir Chris Deverell,Commander JFC, and staff.<\/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\/92717"}],"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=92717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}