Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre

The Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) is the United Kingdom (UK) Ministry of Defence's (MOD's) think tank.

History
The DCDC, originally called the Joint Doctrine and Concepts Centre (JDCC), 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.

Structure
The DCDC 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 (VCDS) who sets its priorities and outputs.

Outputs
DCDC 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 and DCDC have been:

Director JDCC
 * Major-General Anthony Milton 1999-2002
 * Air Vice-Marshal Iain McNicoll 2002-2005
 * Rear Admiral Christopher Parr 2005-2008 (JDCC became DCDC around 2006)

Director DCDC
 * Major-General Paul Newton 2008-2010
 * Air Vice-Marshal M. Paul Colley 2010-2012
 * Major-General Andrew Sharpe 2012-2013
 * Rear Admiral Paul Bennett 2013-2013
 * Rear Admiral John Kingwell 2013-2016
 * Major General Gerald I. Mitchell 2016-2020
 * Major-General Darrell Amison 2020–2022.
 * Air Vice-Marshal John Monahan 2022–present