Inaugurated at Bukit Panjang Camp, the DIS Training Command consolidates training entities to provide centralized professional instruction across six operational domains. These areas include intelligence, cybersecurity, digital systems, C4, electronic protection, and information defence. The command oversees full-career instruction from foundational skills to leadership, incorporating real-world lessons to keep technical capabilities practical and current. It currently features specialized institutions like the Imagery and Geospatial School alongside newly established advanced learning centers.
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Centralizing educational entities ensures Singapore's armed forces can quickly adapt tech…: Centralizing educational entities ensures Singapore's armed forces can quickly adapt technical skills to counter emerging technological threats.
Future expansion plans include establishing the Intelligence Technology and Analysis Scho…: Future expansion plans include establishing the Intelligence Technology and Analysis School and the Joint Intelligence School progressively in 2027.
Upgrading instruction across diverse vocations strengthens high-level operational decisio…: Upgrading instruction across diverse vocations strengthens high-level operational decision-making for the entire armed forces.
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Threats today may differ significantly from those in the past, making it necessary to continually adapt training methods, said the head of the command's development office.
SINGAPORE: The Singapore Armed Forces' (SAF) fourth service, the Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS), launched a new training command on Friday (Nov 6) to better equip its personnel to keep pace with rapidly evolving technologies and threats.
The DIS Training Command (DTCOM), which was inaugurated at a ceremony at Bukit Panjang Camp, brings together the service's training entities to provide a more coordinated and structured approach to training.
It will equip personnel with the competencies needed to operate effectively across six domains: intelligence; cybersecurity; digital; command, control, communications and computers (C4); electronic protection; and information defence, the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) said in a news release.
"Through a more coordinated and centralised approach to training and professional development, DTCOM will strengthen the DIS’s ability to develop a skilled, adaptable and operationally ready workforce," said MINDEF.
In his address at the ceremony, DIS chief Major-General (MG) Lee Yi-Jin said the SAF looks at DIS personnel…
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