Category: News

VE Day Celebrations 8^th May 2025

Today, 8 May 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day. JD2E joined with our local community and attended a memorial service at our local church in the morning. 

We then had the pleasure of joining many of the businesses who share our working location at a lunch time celebration organised by the NDC Group who look after Wellingore Hall. Whilst we are all busy working in this beautiful location we rarely get the opportunity to see and chat to our ‘working neighbours’ and our immediate neighbours. Huge thanks to Richard and Samantha for organising the amazing event.

Pancreatic Cancer Fundraising Certificate

We were delighted to receive this thank you from Pancreatic Cancer UK for our Easter Egg Raffle! Thanks again to all who helped.
Over the years, survival rates have improved enormously for most cancers but sadly, for pancreatic cancer, this is not the case. More than half of people diagnosed die within 3 months – this is unacceptable. Thanks to our fundraising, Pancreatic Cancer UK can continue to fund research breakthroughs – their research funding will support the development of a simple test to diagnose pancreatic cancer earlier and ensure people get life-saving treatment faster.

Every pound you have raised will help us continue our work and demand better for everyone affected by the disease.

Inaugural Event from the Ents Committee

A few members of our team have created an ‘events committee’ to arrange a monthly get together to allow us time to come together as a team, we appreciate that not everyone can make every event as service provision takes priority but our aim is to vary days and times so everyone can make something.

Today was the inaugural event – a lunch time quiz with home made cakes. The winning team were presented with the amazing Quiz Master trophy for safe keeping until the next time!

Thanks to the volunteers (and their partners for baking) – we look forward to the next event!

Egg-cellent News!

Staff at JD2E have been working hard to raise funds for Pancreatic Cancer, one of our company charities.

Our latest fund raiser, an Easter Egg raffle, has raised a whopping

£386!

Huge thanks to Swaz for donating our top prize, to all the local shops for kindly donating eggs and of course everyone for purchasing tickets!!

The winner of our first prize bundle was Doug!
Congratulations Doug!

ITEC 2025

It’s been an incredible few days at ITEC 2025 – and we’re proud to be part of it!

It has been an exciting experience to showcase the power and potential of a fully integrated synthetic environment. Working alongside innovative partners, we’ve demonstrated how seamless collaboration can bring advanced technologies to life, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the world of defense and simulation. This project is a testament to the invaluable contributions SMEs make in driving progress and innovation within the industry.

A huge thank you to the Project OdySSEy team for the warm welcome. We’re thrilled to be joining the OdySSEy family and to contribute our Anti-Submarine Warfare expertise to help shape the future of integrated, collective training in the Single Synthetic Environment.

A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to engage, looking forward now to following up on the great conversations and collaborations in the coming weeks!

45 Sqn Land Course Presentation

Dave & Mick attended the latest WSO/WSOp graduation for 45 Sqn at RAF Cranwell on Friday 7^th March.  The JD2E sponsored award for excellence in the field of land studies went to Flying Officer Finn Carvalho.

10th Annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Members of our JD2E  team were very honoured to assist Inzpire recently with celebrating the 10th annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
The exciting day held at the Air Battlespace Training Centre (ABTC) at RAF Waddington on the 28th February, hosted 28 female students from years 5 and 6 at the John Blow Primary school in Collingham. Throughout the day the girls took part in activities based around Science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects and our team were especially privileged to take the girls ‘flying’ in our simulator and talk to them about our roles in the simulation industry and military backgrounds.

Our teams are (always) busy working on team specific projects. Communication is key within any organisation and so we are taking time out this week to have a whole company meeting. Bringing together our remote and wider, full and part time, employees for a morning of updates and an afternoon activity for a social catch up. An opportunity to ‘down tools’ and to take time to reconnect with everyone. Our meeting ended at Hollywood Bowl where our ‘Highest Score’ trophy also had its inaugural presentation with 2 employees having the same high score! We will have to wait some time to see who gets the trophy next…

AGM at Bomber Command Friday 17th January saw our whole team come together for our AGM at the International Bomber Command Centre; a fantastic setting for the event. We received a tour by one of the volunteers before our meal and our MD took the opportunity to reflect on last year’s incredible successes.

Our MD, Jonathan Bramley and BD Capture Lead, David Bentley attended the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC). They had a great week of interactive discussions and enjoyed meeting existing and new partners.