Defence Equipment and Support
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Agency overview | |
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Formed | 2 April 2007 |
Jurisdiction | United Kingdom |
Headquarters |
MoD Abbey Wood, England, United Kingdom Coordinates: 51°30′12″N 2°33′33″W / 51.5033°N 2.55917°W |
Minister responsible | |
Parent agency | Ministry of Defence |
Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) is a trading entity and joint-defence organisation within the UK Ministry of Defence. It began operating on 2 April 2007 following the merger of the MoD's Defence Procurement Agency and the Defence Logistics Organisation, under the Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support.[1]
The organisation had a civilian and military workforce of around 29,000 (77 per cent civilian and 23 per cent military), in the UK and abroad. DE&S operates as a single Top Level Budget. As of 2008 the DE&S workforce was around 24,500, further reducing under the 'PACE' business improvement programme to around 21,000 by 2012. Of this, around 8,000 posts have been housed at Abbey Wood since 2012.[2]
History
Defence Equipment and Support was established on 2 April 2007. DE&S is overseen by the Minister of State for Defence Procurement. The organisation supports Joint Forces Command and the subsidiary individual armed services thorough Headquarters Air Command, Army Headquarters and Navy Command,
Strategic governance
Defence Equipment and Support Board
Includes:[1]
Title | Name | Date |
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Chairman and Non-Executive Director | Paul Skinner | 2015- |
MOD Permanent Secretary (PUS) | Stephen Lovegrove | 2015- |
Chief Executive Officer (DE&S) | Sir Simon Bollom | 2018- |
Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Military Capability) | Lt Gen Mark Poffley OBE | 2015- |
Non-Executive Director | James Dorrian | 2015- |
Non-Executive Director | Paul Smith | 2015- |
Non-Executive Director | Andrew Wolstenholme OBE | 2015- |
The Board provides strategic governance for DE&S and a robust forum for independent, non-executive support and constructive challenge to the Chief Executive and the Executive Committee. The DE&S Board delegates some activities to sub-committees of the Board, namely the Audit, Remuneration, Programme Review and Nomination Committees. The Chairman ensures that the Board receives feedback on these sub-Committees and that it is able to consider their recommendations.[1]
Direction and oversight
Executive Committee Defence Equipment and Support
Includes:[3]
Title | Name | Date |
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Chief Executive Officer (DE&S) | Sir Simon Bollom | 2018- |
CoM (Fleet) | Vice-Admiral Simon Lister CB OBE | 2013–2017 * see notes |
CoM (Submarines) | Vice-Admiral Simon Lister CB OBE | 2017 * |
CoM (Ships) | Sir Simon Bollom | 2017- |
CoM (Land) | Lieutenant-General, Paul Jaques CBE | 2015- |
CoM (Air) | Air-Marshal Julian Young CB OBE RAF | 2015- |
CoM (Joint Enablers) | Pete Worrall CB OBE | 2015- |
DG Resources (CFO) | Michael Bradley | 2015- |
DG Commercial | Nick Elliott | 2015- |
DE&S is led on a day-to-day basis by the Executive Committee, which consists of the Chief Executive Officer, Director General Resources as Chief Finance Officer, the Director General Commercial and six Chiefs of Materiel who lead the delivery of the programme of work in their respective domains.[1]
Note:Vice-Admiral, Lister is currently on a sabbatical from his Royal Navy Career to be Managing Director of the Aircraft Carrier Alliance.
Sub Committees
Includes: The following subordinate Committees provide specialised support to the Executive Committee.[1]
Name |
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Business Case Review Committee |
Innovation & Prosperity Committee |
People Committee |
Performance Committee |
Safety Committee |
Security Committee |
Transformation Committee |
Administration of (DE&S) and Senior Leadership
The organisation is under the leadership of a civilian Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support since 2015. After the restructuring in 2011 there are four three-star posts under the Chief of Defence Materiel. These are the positions of Chief of Materiel (Fleet), a Royal Navy Vice Admiral, and Chief of Materiel (Land), a British Army Lieutenant General (who also holds the appointment of Quartermaster-General to the Forces), Chief of Materiel (Air), a Royal Air Force Air Marshal and Chief of Materiel (Joint Enablers).
Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support
Name | Date held |
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Tony Douglas[1] | 2015-2018 |
Michael Bradley[4] | January 2018-May 2018 |
Sir Simon Bollom[5] | May 2018 – Present |
Former leadership
Chiefs of Defence Materiel
Name | Date held |
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General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue[6] | 2 April 2007 - December 2010 [7] |
Bernard Gray[8] | From 4 January 2011 |
Chief of Corporate Performance
The Chief of Corporate Performance (CCP) was responsible for managing the business effectively and setting policy in key corporate functional areas. The post was discontinued as at 1 June 2011.
Name | Date held |
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Trevor Woolley [9] | 20?? to 1 June 2011 |
Chief Operating Officer
The Chief Operating Officer (COO) was responsible for project and programme delivery across DE&S. This includes supporting the equipment through life, and the performance of the industrial supply chain. The post was discontinued 1 June 2011.
Name | Date held |
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Dr Andrew Tyler [9] | 2006 - 1 May 2011 |
Chiefs of Materiel for Air/Army/Navy/Joint-Enablers
The Chiefs of Materiel (CofMs) are responsible for managing key relationships with the Capability Sponsor and User. They work at the strategic level to make sure that the operational readiness and sustainability needs of the User are met.[10]
The CofMs ensure an ethos of support to operations is in place to the User, throughout all DE&S activity.
Chief of Materiel (Fleet)/Chief of Fleet Support
Name | Date held |
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Vice Admiral Trevor Soar[12] | Jan 2007 - 2009 |
Vice Admiral Andrew Mathews | 2009–2013 |
Vice Admiral Simon Lister[13][14] | 2013–2017 |
Chief of Materiel (Submarines)
Name | Date held |
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Vice Admiral Sir Simon Lister [10] | 2017 - |
Directorate of Submarine Acquisitions
Name | Date held |
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Rear-Admiral Paul Methven [10] | 2017 - |
Directorate of Submarines Support
Name | Date held |
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Rear-Admiral Keith Beckett [10] | 2017 - |
Chief of Materiel (Ships)
Name | Date held |
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Sir Simon Bollom [10] | 2017 - 2018 |
Directorate of Ships Support
Name | Date held |
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Neal Lawson [10] | 2017 - |
Directorate of Ships Acquisition
Name | Date held |
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Henry Parker [10] | 2017 - |
Chief of Materiel (Land)
Name | Date held |
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Lieutenant General Dick Applegate[9] | 16 January 2007[15] to 1 September 2009 |
Lieutenant General Sir Gary Coward | 1 September 2009[16] to May 2012 |
Lieutenant General Christopher Deverell | May 2012 to 8 March 2016[17] |
Lieutenant General Paul Jaques [10] | 8 March 2016 - |
Directorate of Land Equipment
Name | Date held |
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Major-General, Robert Talbot Ric [10] | 2017 - |
Directorate of Weapons
Name | Date held |
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Richard Smart [10] | 2017 - |
Chief of Materiel (Air)
Name | Date held |
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Air-Marshal Sir Barry Thornton[9] | 1 April 2007 - 30 April 2009 |
Air-Marshal Sir Kevin Leeson | 1 May 2009[18] – October 2012 |
Air-Marshal Simon Bollom | October 2012 – April 2016 |
Air-Marshal Julian Young [10] | April 2016 – |
Directorate of Air Support
Name | Date held |
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Adrian Baguley [10] | 2017 - |
Directorate of Combat Air
Name | Date held |
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Air-Vice-Marshal Keith Bethell [10] | 2017 - |
Chief of Materiel (Joint Enablers)
Name | Date held |
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Dr Andrew Tyler | 1 May 2011 to 21 June 2011 |
Trevor Woolley | 1 June 2011 |
Peter Worrall [10] | October 2013 – Present |
Directorate of Helicopters
Name | Date held |
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Air-Vice-Marshal Graham Russell [10] | 2017 - |
Submarine Delivery Agency
Name | Date held |
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Ian Booth [10] | 2017 - |
Functions
Directorate-General (Commercial)
Name | Date held |
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Nick Elliot [10] | 2015 |
Commercial
Name | Date held |
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Alan Peter [10] | 2017 - |
Commercial Function
Name | Date held |
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Mike Greatwich [10] | 2017 - |
Contract Management
Name | Date held |
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Morag Stuart [10] | 2017 - |
Corporate Function Manager
Name | Date held |
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Stephen Palmer [10] | 2017 - |
Directorate-General (Resources)
Name | Date held |
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Michael Bradley [10] | 2016-2018 |
Finance
Name | Date held |
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David Johnson [10] | 2017 - |
Transformation
Name | Date held |
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Geoff Robins [10] | 2017 - |
Information Technology
Name | Date held |
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TBA | 2017 - |
Corporate Function Manager
Name | Date held |
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Rob Young [10] | 2017 - |
Directorate Human Resources
Name | Date held |
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Don Cuthbert [10] | 2016 |
Insight and Research
Name | Date held |
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David Ball [10] | 2017 - |
Corporate Function Manager
Name | Date held |
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Maureen Doherty [10] | 2017 - |
Directorate, General Programmes
Name | Date held |
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Tony Chisnall [10] | 2017 |
Corporate Function Managers
Name | Date held |
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4 officials supporting DirGenProgmm's [10] | 2017 - |
Directorate, Corporate Operations
Name | Date held |
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Barry Burton [10] | 2017 |
Corporate Function Managers
Name | Date held |
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3 officials supporting DirCorpOps [10] | 2017 - |
Major projects
DE&S manages a variety of defence procurement and support projects inherited from the DLO and DPA for all three services. Examples of current and future procurement projects include:
Vessels
- Type 45 destroyer class.
- Astute submarine class.
- Albion landing platform dock class.
- Bay landing ship dock class.
- Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier class.
- Type 26 frigate warship class.
- General Purpose Frigate class
- River-class patrol vessel
- Tide-class tanker
- Solid Support Ship
- Vanguard submarine class.
- Dreadnought-class submarine Replacement class for the Vanguard-Class
Aircraft
- Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft.
- F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fighter aircraft.
- A400M transport aircraft.
- C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft.
- Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft
- Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA)/Airbus A330 MRTT aerial refueling tanker.
- Apache MkI attack helicopter.
- Merlin HC3 support and Merlin HM1 anti-submarine warfare helicopters.
- Hawk 128 advanced jet trainer.
- Watchkeeper Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
- Future Offensive Air System.
- Airseeker
- Protector UAV
Vehicles
- Mastiff Cougar (vehicle) Protected Patrol Vehicle.
- Ajax (Scout SV)
- Panther Command and Liaison Vehicle.
- Viking armoured personnel carrier.
- Mechanised Infantry Vehicle
- Multi Role Vehicle-Protected (MRV-P) (MRV-P)[19]
Munitions
- AIM-132 ASRAAM (air-to-air missile).
- Meteor air-to-air missile.
- Storm Shadow cruise missile.
- Brimstone air-launched anti-tank guided missile.
- FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank guided missile.
- Main Battle Tank and Light Armour Weapon (MBT LAW) anti-tank missile.
- Defence general munitions (DGM).
- SPEAR, Selective Precision Effects At Range munitions, see for example, SPEAR 3
Other
- Information Systems & Services
- Future Integrated Soldier Technology modular infantry equipment system.
- Bowman tactical communications system.
- Skynet 5 strategic communications satellite system.
- Light weapons, photography and batteries (LWPB)
Main locations
As of 2016 the main locations (with staff numbers) were:[20]
- MoD Abbey Wood (7,920) - Head Office
- DM Beith (220) - Defence Munitions
- MoD Bicester (140) - Logistics
- HMNB Clyde (100) - Fleet Support and Defence Munitions
- HMNB Devonport (220) - Fleet Support and Defence Munitions
- DM Kineton (240) - Defence Munitions
- DM Longtown (120) - Defence Munitions
- Ministry of Defence, London (90) - Policy
- RAF Northolt (210) - British Forces Post Office
- HMNB Portsmouth and DM Gosport (350) - Fleet Support and Defence Munitions
- Rosyth Dockyard (120) - Fleet Support and Defence Munitions
- RAF Waddington (170) - ISTAR Support
- Yeovil (410) - Helicopter Support
Responsibility for 'Logistics, Commodities and Services' (including storage and delivery of non-weaponry equipment, such as food and clothing, to soldiers)[21] was contracted out to the private sector in 2015 under an arrangement that included the transfer of 1,100 staff and construction of a new 'Defence Fulfilment Centre' at MoD Donnington.[20]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6
This article incorporates text published under the British Open Government Licence: "Defence Equipment and Support Corporate Plan 2016 – 2019" (PDF). www.gov.uk. MOD UK, p.3. 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2018. - ↑ Dave Harvey (12 May 2011). "Straight talking from the top, at MoD Abbey Wood". BBC News. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ↑ "DE&S Organisation chart" (PDF). www.gov.uk. MOD. UK. May 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
- ↑ "Michael Bradley". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ↑ "Sir Simon Bollom appointed Chief Executive of Defence Equipment and Support". Ministry of Defence. 27 April 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ↑ DE&S Organisation Chart retrieved October 2008
- ↑ "Chief of Defence Materiel". MOD.uk. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
- ↑ Bernard Gray appointed Chief of Defence Materiel Ministry of Defence, 16 December 2010
- 1 2 3 4 "Defence Equipment & Support - April 2007" (PDF). MoD. April 2007. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 "DE&S Organisation chart" (PDF). www.gov.uk. MOD. UK. May 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
- ↑ "Chief of Fleet Support". Royal Navy. 2017-05-22. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
- ↑ Admiral sailes into snobs' bible
- ↑ "New submarine agency in place" (PDF). Desider. p. 11. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ↑ "New head of alliance delivering nation's Carriers amongst appointments welcomed by Defence Secretary". MOD. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
- ↑ London Gazette 58252 dated 20 February 2007
- ↑ London Gazette 59191 dated 22 September 2009
- ↑ Defence View points June 2011
- ↑ Royal Air Force Air Rank Appointments List 08/09 retrieved 17 November 2008
- ↑ Defence Equipment and Support. Defence Equipment and Support Corporate Plan 2016 – 2019 (PDF). Ministry of Defence. p. 23.
- 1 2 "DE&S Corporate Plan 2016-2019" (PDF). UK Government. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ↑ "Giant MoD Donnington Buildings Take Shape". Shropshire Star. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
Attribution
This article contains text from this source: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/526950/DES_Corporate_Plan_201619-20160526.pdf. © Crown copyright, which is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0