Eat Cake!! | JD2E held a cake sale on the 20th February for our charity partners @Scottys Little Soldiers and @Pancreatic Cancer UK.
Over £560 was raised on the day with a huge team effort of baking lots of delights as well as engaging with the local community to support this event.
Well done to all the team who took part and helped raise a staggering amount of money in support of our nominated charities.
Nominated Charities Announcement
JD2E have nominated 2 charities to support this year. One with a military connection and one of a civilian connection. We have decided to support Scotty’s Little Soldiers and Pancreatic Cancer UK.
One of our employees, Rich, has signed up for the Great South Run in October 2024. Rich describes himself as not really a runner but has started training already! If you would like to support JD2E with our fundraising efforts this year then we appreciate any donations that you may be able to make, no matter how big or small.
JD2E were proud to sponsor 824 Naval Air Squadron Wings Parade which took place at RNAS Culdrose on Wednesday 13th December 2023.
Richard presented the JD2E Guy Edward’s Trophy to POACMN Jones who won the award for the best Aircrewman. Huge congratulations to all wings recipients.
IBCC visit with RNoAF
On Friday 3rd November JD2E accompanied members of the Norwegian Air Force to International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC). Following a tour of the IBCC, a short Remembrance ceremony was conducted by Mr Nick Sharpe from the IBCC and a wreath was laid by the Norwegians on the memorial stone commemorating their 37 countrymen who died whilst serving with RAF Bomber Command during WW2.
Kieran and Yvonne attended the University Of Lincoln Careers & Employability Careers Fair yesterday. This was a fantastic event and well attended by businesses and students. We chatted to many students and had some great interactions.
Special mention to the Media students who saw opportunities with us that we hadn’t even considered! Great innovative thinking from the students and has given JD2E some ideas to follow up on with the University!
Yesterday a team of enthusiastic golfers participated in a charity golf event to support Blesma, The Limbless Veterans. As our nominated charity for 2023 we were proud to travel to Wokingham and support this event. Thank you to the team at Blesma and Sand Martins Golf Club for hosting us. A fantastic day was had by all and even the best efforts of the weather could not dampen team spirits.
DSEI 2023 Exhibition
We are delighted to attend DSEI 2023 and have been able to exhibit as part of the Greater Lincolnshire Regional Defence & Security Cluster.
JD2E were delighted to present an engraved tumbler, in recognition of the award of the JD2E sponsored 45 Sqn ISR Land Trophy, to Flying Officer Sam Jones, on the occasion of his graduation at RAF Cranwell. This trophy is awarded by the 45 Sqn Course Instructors for excellence in the field of land studies.
Congratulations Sam!
Multi-award-winning Smith Myers, designer and developer of ARTEMIS, optimised for airborne deployment and JD2E the training and simulation company specialising in airborne sensor operator training and simulation have formed an agreement to integrate ARTEMIS into the JD2E training and simulation environment enabling JD2E to train ARTEMIS to airborne sensor operators for crewed and uncrewed aircraft at its facility in Lincolnshire, UK.
Smith Myers ARTEMIS Airborne Mobile Phone Detection, Location and Communication System. It is now in use across the globe. This is deployed on a raft of different crewed and uncrewed aircraft.
With the install base of this new and unique sensor growing, there have been numerous system integrations. The MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) agreed between the two UK-based global companies, announced at Paris International Airshow 2023 (19-25 June) recognises the obvious synergies, explains Andrew Munro, Managing Director of Smith Myers:
“These fully integrated sensor suites controlled by a single mission system require a different level of training where realistic simulation and training across multiple sensors becomes key. “JD2E are not only a great company to work with, but they are also experts at turning an ISR aircraft and crew into an ISR capability” he continued.
“In today’s world of critical ISR missions, single opportunities and new and innovative sensors such as ARTEMIS, the “Thinking Operator” is essential for successful missions” says Jonathan Bramley, JD2E Managing Director. “Effective training of personnel ensures the correct decision making, tactical awareness and, ultimately, mission success” he added.
This new and exciting integration creates a fully realistic and immersive training experience for the sensor operator. This can be carried out at JD2E’s state-of-the art UK facility in Lincolnshire. Operators can even train alongside the pilots. The training will include the fully integrated use of sensor arrays including ARTEMIS, EO/IR, Synthetic Aperture Radar and VIDAR.
This training and simulation environment will lead to the correct decision making, tactical awareness and, ultimately, mission success.
Smith Myers ARTEMIS suite of SAR products has been in active service saving lives around the world. With the growing global customer base including programmes in Europe, North America, South America, and the Middle East.
JD2E are world leaders in the delivery of basic, intermediate and advanced sensor operator and mission commander training. Delivering to a number of international customers including advanced ISR training to the UK’s Royal Air Force ISR aircrew.
