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Would a Reduction in Budgets be a Bad Thing for the MoD?
More money and better spending has been our guiding principle, this might be a rather outrageous statement to make but one has to wonder if throwing more money at a dysfunctional Ministry of Defence would actually be counter-productive?
The Ministry of Defence
The Ministry of Defence hovers between two ...
Under the Radar
Released on the same day the Green Paper the MoD also published the Defence Equipment and Support Business Strategy 2008-12 and the Blueprint: The Future Operating Model.
This Blueprint sets out the future operating model for DE&S in line with the direction set out by our Business Strategy. It describes ...
Are We There Yet?
Despite several ‘deadlines’ coming and going it looks like a deal on the A400 is close
Aviation News International is reporting that the deal will see a reduction in quantities but no reduction in order value. So although EADS looks like it is going to be allowed to renege on a fixed price ...
Extra Chinooks – First Impressions
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If You Had to Cut the MoD Budget by 25%
We all want the Future Defence Review to be commitments led rather than resource led and we all know deep down, it won’t be.
Given the rapidly deteriorating state of the nations finances, regardless of right or wrong, regardless of it being more worthy of cash than the welfare or the overseas ...
MoD bonus payments, or is that chicken feed?
The MoD have had a thorough kicking over its Civil Service bonus payments but are in for a real hiding in the press when the scale of the potential losses due to errors in the much vaunted Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) system become more widely known.
Towards the end of 2004 the MoD awarded a ...
The Civil Service Bonus Story
Widely reported in the press today was the issue of MoD civil service bonus payments. In the usual pattern of these things the press pick up on a story and then wheel in the usual pundits and the family of dead or injured service personnel to reinforce the premise of the story.
The general thrust of ...
Your Nicked, Nicked, Nicked, Nicked and Nicked
The Independent has reported today on the prospect of job cuts in the MoD Police, raising fears of reduced security at facilities that might contain nuclear materials. The Sun reported that 900 personnel were facing the chop in a forthcoming review.
In its reply, the MoD states that it is considering ...
Is It Time to Kill the Defence Industrial Strategy
On the MoD’s web site its opening line on the page that details the Defence Industrial Strategy 2.0 is;
The DIS was widely regarded as a success
mmm, perhaps by the people that wrote it, perhaps by BAe but not by the taxpayer and certainly not by anyone feeling the harsh wind of budgetary restraint ...
Shiny Arse Civil Servants
If one takes too much notice of the mainstream media one could be forgiven for thinking that the Ministry of Defence Civil Service is comprised of tens of thousands of ‘Sir Humphries’ building paper clip empires and drawing huge salaries whilst Tommy Atkins has to moonlight to pay for boots ...
