DSAT compliance that stands up to scrutiny — without drowning your team in process.
Defence capability and DSAT consultancy for training that can demonstrate JSP 822 compliance, with audit trails and governance that actually hold up.
Training that can't demonstrate DSAT (JSP 822) compliance is a recurring risk across Defence programmes — not because the training is wrong, but because the evidence trail behind it is weak, inconsistent across providers, or assembled in a panic before an audit rather than built in from the start.
I start by testing whether your governance can survive an unannounced audit request today, not in a fortnight. Can two different sites or providers show the same evidence in the same format? Are governance decisions actually documented, or just "known" by the people who made them? Where the answer is no, that's where the real risk sits — usually well before the training itself.
I review your training system against DSAT, identify the specific gaps between what's happening and what's defensible, and put in place the structures and evidence needed to stand up to scrutiny — pragmatically, without adding process for its own sake.
Deliverables, and the outcomes they drive.
Deliverables
- A DSAT gap analysis report, mapped against JSP 822
- An audit-ready evidence framework your team can maintain
- A governance and decision-rights matrix
- Recommendations for standardising practice across providers or sites
Outcomes
- Audit-ready, DSAT-aligned governance
- Clear roles and decision rights
- Defensible assurance evidence, produced on demand rather than assembled under pressure
MOD Digital Skills for Defence (DS4D)
DSAT-aligned capability analysis and governance embedded across an enterprise-wide Defence programme — progress in ten weeks that had stalled for twelve months.
Common questions about dsat consultancy.
Both. DSAT governance matters wherever training is being delivered against a Defence requirement — whether you're MOD, a prime contractor, or a training provider working to Defence standards.
A focused gap analysis is typically weeks, not months. The Capability Readiness Review at the start gives a realistic view of scope before anything is committed.
No — the Senior Information Officer (SIO) Rapid TNA case study is a direct example of DSAT used to accelerate decisions, not delay them, when it's treated as a decision-support framework rather than a box-ticking exercise.
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A practical, problem-first conversation — no sales pitch. We'll work out what's really going on and whether I can help.