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Title: Lt Gen Dick Applegate OBE


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Lt Gen Dick Applegate OBE Chief of Materiel
(Land) Defence Equipment Support Long Term
Strategy Short Term Need Royal United
Services Institute Friday 13 June 2008
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Defence Equipment and Support
  • The merger was a major undertaking made more
    challenging by the need to support operations.
    We commend the Chief of Defence Materiel and his
    staff for ensuring that the merger was achieved
    to the timetable set and for the progress
    achieved in the first year of operation
  • House of Commons Defence Select Committee, 10th
    Report 2008

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Urgent Operational Requirements (UORs)
  • 3.58 Bn allocated since 2003
  • Over 1500 requirements raised
  • 300 UORs in progress in DES
  • 180 Op HERRICK
  • 120 Op TELIC

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Urgent Operational Requirements
  • UOR Benefits
  • Cuts through process
  • People are motivated to deliver
  • User is more realistic over requirement
  • Extra funding from CPF
  • UOR Disadvantages
  • Challenge of delivering capability NOT
    equipment
  • Some integration is problematic
  • Training and support provisioning can lag
  • Challenge of providing VFM
  • Does not help develop industrial base

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Urgent Operational Requirements
BULLDOG (TES)
SCIMITAR
WARRIOR
MASTIFF
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Transforming in Contact Fire Team 2003
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Transforming in Contact Fire Team 2008
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Transforming in Contact
HERMES 450
DESERT HAWK
REAPER
9
Transforming in Contact
FIRE SUPPORT TEAM
BRIGADE HQ
JACKAL
G-MLRS
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