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
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 7th 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.
Armistice Day
JD2E staff attended our local church today to mark Remembrance Day and observe a 2 minute silence, taking time out of the working day to mark and reflect this occasion.
On Friday, we visited International Bomber Command Centre with some International Aircrew students to lay a wreath.
Scotty’s Little Soldiers Ball
JD2E recently had the privilege and opportunity to join Nikki and the team of amazing people at Scotty’s Little Soldiers at their annual Scotty’s Ball. As one of the headline sponsors we are proud to have been a small part in helping them raise an incredible £54,000 towards supporting bereaved military children. As the country gather and prepare to pay their respects over the next few days, we must not forget the amazing and vital work this, and all the charities and companies do in supporting the wider military family. Well done Scotty’s!
New Staff
We have recently welcomed 3 new members of staff to our team; Paul Read joins us as Chief Technology Officer, David Bentley joins as our Business Development Capture Lead and Ben Hall as a Junior Software developer
Paul has a BSc (Hons) in Aeronautical Engineering from City University, London. Paul’s career in providing technical solutions to support training and simulation started with British Aerospace at Filton. He then started his first company, specializing in software development and has also worked as a Technical Adviser with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
David has had a long career with the Royal Air Force, accumulating 3,000 flying hours and being a Qualified Tactics Instructor, Qualified Weapons Instructor and Qualified Flying Instructor. He held numerous roles including Commandant of the Central Flying School and Director of Flying Training. He retired from the RAF in 2019 in the rank of Air Commodore and his first civilian post was with CAE.
Ben completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science at the University of Lincoln and continued his education at the University of Nottingham to complete an MSc in Computer Science with AI. Ben joins our growing team of UoL alumni.
