SAF's Digital and Intelligence Service launches new training command

The Singapore Armed Forces' youngest service, the Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS), inaugurated its training command to strengthen training and professional development on Friday (Nov 6)."Technologies advance, threats evolve, and established ways of working can quickly become obsolete," said DIS chief Major-General (MG) Lee Yi-Jin in his opening address at the inauguration ceremony held at Bukit Panjang Camp.To this end, the new DIS Training Command's (DTCOM) role is to develop mastery, while ensuring that what our guardians master remains current and relevant.The new DTCOM takes a more coordinated and centralised approach to training and development, thereby driving the service's workforce transformation and competency development, the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) said in a statement after the inauguration.It will also equip personnel with skills and expertise across the domains of cybersecurity, C4 (command, control, communications and computer), digital, electronic protection, information defence and intelligence.