Adaptable: The Logistics Challenge

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Adaptable The Logistics Challenge

• Air Marshal Barry Thornton
• Air Member for Materiel
• Chief of Materiel (Air)

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Adaptable The Materiel Challenge

• Air Marshal Barry Thornton
• Air Member for Materiel
• Chief of Materiel (Air)

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Adaptable
Our ability to react to new challenges in an
appropriate timescale, and to seize new
opportunities
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Materiel Challenges

• Possess the Ability to Support and Evolve
  Military Equipments Through Life.
• Deliver the Capability Required to Match the
  Changing Operational Demands.

Requires proactive action today to react
tomorrow
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Track Record
Falklands Campaign Conversion of C130 tankers
Balkans Introduction of Chinook FLIR
Gulf War 1 Introduction of TIALD.
Afghanistan Introduction of SNIPER.
Good, but not good enough for the future
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Key RequirementsWhat can we do differently

• An agile and skilled acquisition organisation
• An agile industry to support us
• Responsive supply chain
• Responsive contractual arrangements
• Understanding of technology/opportunity
• Adaptable capability insertion

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DEPARTMENTAL INITIATIVES

• Defence Acquisition Change Programme
• Defence Industrial Strategy
• Defence Technology Strategy
• Partnered Support

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• Defence Acquisition Change Programme
• An agile and skilled acquisition organisation

• BETTER DECISION MAKING
• Policy resource led
• Broader range of options considered
• Longer term view
• Greater User involvement

• REMOVING BARRIERS
• MOD Unified Customer
• Creation of DES
• Removal of STP/EP
• Pull through of best technology

• HIGH PERFORMING PEOPLE AND TEAMS
• Improved performance
• Career development in acquisition
• Skills training and performance incentives
• Team work across MOD Unified Customer

• EFFECTIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH INDUSTRY
• Greater transparency
• Closer working
• Broader range of commercial approaches
• Better understanding of our supply chain

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Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) An agile
industry to support us

• Require a dynamic, sustainable, but globally
  competitive Defence manufacturing sector
• Identified industrial capabilities needed in UK
  to enable us to operate our equipment in the way
  we choose.

Industry sustained through regular workflow
volume through life
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Responsive Supply/Support Chain

• Able to respond rapidly to changing operational
  demand
• Service-based contracting arrangements drive
  benefits through incentivisation to reduce costs
  (e.g. repair loop inventories), not sell more
  spares

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Partnered Support

• Commercial framework in place to embody MoDs/UORs
• Flexible contracts to meet changing operation
  requirement
• Tornado ATTAC
• HIOS

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Defence Technology Strategy

• Require greater awareness of technology which
  could be exploited
• Expedite identification to exploitation
  timeline

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Insertion of New Capability

• Equipment design that facilitates capability
  upgrade
• Avionic and weapon system open architecture to
  enable future capability insertion
• Need to adopt an adaptable, multiple capability
  insertion strategy

Tactical Information Exchange Capability
Secure Comms for Ac
Precision Guided Bomb
Common Interfacing Architecture
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Challenges to Industry

• Agility in decision making
• Maintenance of the skill base
• Application of resource to task
• Configured to support through life capability
• Better understanding of the supply chain
• Target right technologies
• Drive down costs