I must admit, this almost passed me by. The annual ‘kick the MoD in the balls’ report from the National Audit Office (NAO), properly known as the Major Projects Report was published over a week ago. The National Audit Office has…
When the MoD published the ‘Defence in Numbers‘ booklet the equipment lists were clearly an error, perhaps an error produced by a junior person. A number of press outlets picked it up, after Think Defence of course! At the end…
The MoD has issued a glossy brochure that yet again, tries to hammer home the point that we are globally engaged, spend gazillions on defence and meet NATO 2% GDP and 20% on new equipment targets, unlike the other slackers…
This afternoon the Royal Navy hosted a ‘live Twitter chat’ with Captain Simon Petitt from HMS Queen Elizabeth. Live Q&A session with Capt Simon Petitt @RoyalNavy from 1400-1500 #askQnlz pic.twitter.com/VOuJuwghix — HMS Queen Elizabeth🇬🇧 (@HMSQNLZ) October 7, 2015 Questions raised…
Returning to a common theme, a recent story from ADS described how Frazer Nash had won an MoD contract; Engineering consultancy Frazer-Nash has won two competitively tendered bids to provide comprehensive safety & environmental and information security technical support for…
I have been reading about Agile Development, a method designed for software development, and wondered if it is a technique that could be applied to hardware, defence hardware. Agile Development is like many approaches to complex problems, an amalgamation of…
A couple of recent FOI requests have highlighted the Category A and B projects the MoD is currently working on. These are divided into categories; Category Procurement Cost Approving Authority A Above £400M DE&S Investment Board, IAB, MOD Ministers and…
We all know that the RAF’s Reaper, Defender/Islander and Shadow R1 aircraft do secret stuff in secret places, but so does the RC135W Rivet Joint. In the recent PQ on aircraft numbers the MoD listed the forward and depth fleet…
In amongst the usual boring FOI releases and Transparency Data the MoD has published the appointment letters for most of the major programmes; Well worth a read, some interesting dates and milestones to be found.
