President Tharman Shanmugaratnam visited the Singapore Armed Forces’ (SAF) youngest service \u2014 the Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) on Tuesday (Nov 3).<\/p>\n
The visit to the DIS’ Open Source Unit (OSU) also marks his inaugural unit visit to the SAF, the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to a MINDEF factsheet, the unit supports the SAF by monitoring news and information relating to global military and security developments, as well as natural disasters in the region.<\/p>\n
It explained that the SAF’s situational awareness is enhanced by keeping abreast of developments in the evolving information landscape, thereby enabling commanders to make timely, well-informed decisions in response to developments at home and abroad, while contributing to broader national security efforts.<\/p>\n
The President was hosted by the DIS chief Major-General Lee Yi-Jin, along with Chief of Defence Force Vice-Admiral Aaron Beng and other senior SAF officers.<\/p>\n
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During the visit, President Tharman was briefed on the DIS and its Joint Intelligence Command, including its role in providing accurate, relevant and timely intelligence for early warning and decision-making for SAF’s operations.<\/p>\n
He observed demonstrations of OSU\u2019s monitoring operations and engaged its service personnel, including full-time national servicemen and operationally ready national servicemen.<\/p>\n
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Said President Tharman: “The DIS plays a more important role than ever, as digital threats can only be expected to grow in frequency, scale and sophistication. I commend our service personnel for their efforts to continually stay abreast of developments and keep the nation safe.”<\/p>\n
The DIS was officially inaugurated at a parade officiated by then-President Halimah Yacob<\/a> on Oct 28, 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n [[nid:748775]]<\/p>\n editor@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n President Tharman Shanmugaratnam visited the Singapore Armed Forces’ (SAF) youngest service \u2014 the Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) on Tuesday (Nov 3). The visit to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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