This year’s event aimed to build upon the successes of recent years’ DSAE Industry Day and expand it from a single day event to one that was run over two days. This provided a greater opportunity for DSAE staff, instructors, and trainees to get hands on the equipment and discuss with Industry their future lines of development.
The theme for this year’s event was to further explore the opportunities for adaptable future synthetic and hybrid training technologies for a modern defence engineering school that can be applied to training across all three Services both rotary and fixed-wing systems.
Four of our Industry Partners provided the audience with briefs on day two, ranging from Babcock’s work on next generation immersive digital training to BAE’s brief on their development of AI-powered training systems.
The event was tailored towards air engineering, but the invitation to the event was open to the wider Defence College of Technical Training (DCTT) and 22 Group community. Commandant DSAE, Group Captain Gibb, opened the event on day one, with Commandant DCTT, Brigadier Woodbridge-Lewin MBE, the invited senior guest for day two.
The decision to expand the event this year undoubtedly provided greater opportunities for dialogue and discussion with our Industry Partners on how we can improve the training experience for our trainees. The planning now begins for DSAE Industry Event 2025.
