Defence Futures and Force Design


The Defence Futures and Force Design , formerly Defence Futures and formerly Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre is the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence's think tank.
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History

The DCDC, originally called the Joint Doctrine and Concepts Centre, was established as a result of the 1998 Strategic Defence Review. The UK recognised that it needed to have a clearer long-term vision of the way in which it expected it forces and their methods of operation to develop.
Programme SOLARIUM – Strategic Command’s transformation programme – launched the new Integration Design Authority on 1 July 2024. Due to this transformation the DCDC has evolved into a new organisation – Defence Futures, part of the IDA. By 1 July 2024, "following Defence Reform, Defence Futures has been restructured and now operates as Defence Futures and Force Design."

Structure

The F&FD is headed by a two-star officer, located at Shrivenham and is under the UK's Strategic Command but reports to the Vice Chief of the Defence Staff who sets its priorities and outputs.

Outputs

F&FD produces many publications relating to the future global environment. It also has a Doctrine Team responsible for writing and maintaining a range of joint operational level UK and NATO doctrine publications, and Strategy, Analysis and Research and Legal Teams such as the Global Strategic Trends Programme.

Directors

The list of Directors of the JDCC, DCDC and F&FD have been:
Director JDCC
Director DCDC
Director F&FD
  • Air Vice-Marshal Mark K. Ridgway 2024–present