David G Wilkinson

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DStan Standardization Management Awareness Day
Abbey Wood - 12 February 2009
How Europe Can Help You!
David G Wilkinson Head International
Standardization
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Introduction

• During this session we will be looking at 5 areas
  of standardization activity in Europe that
• complement NATO standardization
• explore opportunities for centralisation and
  resource sharing
• improve standardization management processes and
  tools
• benefit the UK stakeholders IPTs, Defence
  Industry etc

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1. Defence Standards - Multinational Users

• We continue to support the development of
  Standards and STANAGs within NATO
• But NATO standardization projects need the
  support of a significant number of nations
• This can lead to some standardization projects
  being shelved despite their importance to a
  number of nations
• Hence EDA Nations (and others) have agreed to
  cooperate on national (not European) defence
  standards that meet the needs of many nations

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Benefits

• Higher quality standards - more likely to be
  recognised as best practice internationally
• Reduction in number of standards developed -
  making standards selection and evaluation process
  easier
• Development/maintenance costs and expertise are
  shared
• A quick turnaround - one nation manages and
  publishes the standard e.g. as a UK Defence
  Standard

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The First Candidate

• Denmark, Germany, Finland, Netherlands, Norway,
  Switzerland and the UK agreed to develop a
  standard anti-icing and de-icing fluid for
  aircraft runways with Germany as the Lead Nation
• Collaboration resulted in laboratory savings and
  the sharing of expertise
• A 2 column VG/UK Defence Standard in German and
  English completed

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Next Areas of Cooperation

• UK and DEU agreed to work together on Defence
  Standards for Fuel Cells with UK being the Lead
  Nation
• A generic standard and a supplementary standard
  for a Self Contained Man-Worn Portable Methanol
  Fuel Cell System have already been drafted USA
  and Sweden are among those interested
• Other nations are currently looking at possible
  candidates for standardization cooperation
  including water purification and packaging

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2. EDSIS - Now

• The European Defence Standards Information System
  (EDSIS) was originally designed to allow European
  MOD standardization organisations to list their
  major defence standardization projects and invite
  multilateral cooperation (from MOD and Industry)
• (UK standardization projects are either new
  Defence Standards, major revisions to existing
  Defence Standards or the upgrade of Interim
  Defence Standards to full status)

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EDSISWeb Projects
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EDSIS Impending Changes

• EDSIS is being expanded to encourage nations to
  debate the need for the proposed standardization
  projects i.e. to provide information relating to
  extant standards that could negate the need for
  such projects e.g.
• where there are civil standards could they be
  amended to meet the Lead Nations defence
  requirements?
• where there are a number of Defence Standards
  could they be cancelled in favour of one standard?

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EDSIS - Ambition

• To move from a Standards Information System to a
  Standardization Information System by providing a
  forum for
• EDA and new NATO standardization projects
• obtaining/accessing standards used in defence
  procurement
• Industry and MOD standardization
  problems/solutions
• national/international key policies and
  procedures
• new civil standards projects/impact
• emerging European legislation/impact

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EDSIS Development Benefits

• The forum would allow
• Industry to air standardization issues relating
  to the selection and use of standards,
  standardization gaps, preferred standards,
  standards proliferation
• civil standardization organisations to provide
  early visibility of standardization projects that
  would have an impact on the defence environment
• EDA to advise of emerging European legislation
  and associated documentation, such as EU
  Directives and interpretative communications that
  impact on the defence environment

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3. EHDP Standards Selection Tool

• CEN WS10 is responsible for the development and
  maintenance of the European Handbook for Defence
  Procurement (EHDP)
• The WS10 Expert Groups have 3 important roles to
  play as far as identification and selection of
  standards is concerned i.e. to
• identify best practice standards
• provide recommendations on their use
• identify standardization gaps

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EHDP Front Page
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EHDP Expert Groups (Phase I)

• EG1 NBC Detectors
• EG2 Energetic Materials
• EG3 Fuels and Lubricants
• EG4 Batteries
• EG5 Packaging
• EG6 Electrical Interfaces
• EG7 Electromagnetic Environment
• EG8 Environmental Engineering

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EHDP Expert Groups (Phase II)

• EG9 Armoured Land Vehicle Technology
• EG10 Ammunition
• EG11 Paints and Coatings
• EG12 Fluid Handling Systems
• EG13 Life Cycle (Project) Management
• EG14 Life Cycle Technical Documentation
• EG15 Quality of Electric Power Supply
• EG16 Methodology and Terminology

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EHDP Phase III

• New Expert Groups
• EG17 Reliability and Availability
• EG18 Waste Management
• EG19 Disposal of Munitions
• Revisit EGs 1-8 for maintenance purposes
• Upgrade EHDP to make it more user friendly

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EHDP Benefits

• The EHDP will provide
• a recognized European standards portfolio
• guidance in defence procurement matters for
  emerging and future armament programmes

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4. EDA Studies

• One of the advantages of working with the
  European Defence Agency is the opportunity to
  provide a business case for studies that impact
  on our national activities
• We are currently studying the role of Industry in
  the development and application of standards

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EDA Study Key Subjects

• Industry involvement in the
• standards development process
• identification of standards for use in contracts
• Problems encountered with
• standards during the ITT and contractual
  negotiation stages
• standards during the life of the contract
• the maintenance of old equipment built to
  standards that have been superseded

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EDA Study Additional Aims

• The aim of the study is also to provide the
  standards stakeholder community with advice on
• the use of prescriptive and performance based
  standards
• the application of civil standards in the defence
  environment
• maintaining the defence requirement in civil
  standards

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EDA Study Greater Industry Involvement

• The study will try and identify those specific
  areas where Industry should have more involvement
  in the decision making processes related to the
  defence standardization environment, with the aim
  of
• improving MOD/Industry interfaces
• reducing the proliferation of standards
• ensuring greater use and more effective
  maintenance of the EHDP
• encouraging greater use of EDSIS

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5. Defence Standardization Benchmarking

• The Materiel Standardization Harmonisation Team
  (MSHT) is currently conducting a series of
  benchmarking exercises leading to
• improved working practices both nationally and
  on an international basis
• the identification of a defence standardization
  management model which captures the best
  practices of the member nations

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Generic Benefits

• Nations new to standardization management have a
  model to develop their organisations against
• Nations experienced in standardization management
  can review their operating methods against
  perceived best practice
• Provides an opportunity to examine best practices
  with a view to centralising standardization
  functions on a European basis and spread the
  costs
• Provides a baseline for enhancing current best
  practice, both nationally and collectively

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Specific Benefits - Reminder

• Benchmarking led to
• cooperation in standards development
• the expansion of the EDSIS system portal for
  standardization
• identification/rationale for use/non-use of
  alternative standards
• identification of organisational structure
  differences
• proposals for strategic standardization
  management
• identification of best practice civil/defence
  interface
• identification of EDA studies

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Thank You

• Please remember that I am your UK Representative
  at the
• NATO Committee for Standardization
  Representatives (NCSREPs)
• MSHT/MSG EDA standardization forums
• So please contact me if you have any burning
  standardization problems and/or proposals
• Dave Wilkinson
• Tel [phone]
• Email TES-DStan-Int_at_dpa.mod.uk