Desider

Год / месяц: 2015/1
Номер: 80
Страниц: 44
Язык: English
Формат: PDF - 5.33 MB

Magazine of Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S)
Журнал министерства обороны Великобритании, посвящённый вооружению, техники и службам поддержки

4 MSPs have boosted the Materiel Strategy
The Managed Service Providers are working with DE&S staff in two key ways, explains Materiel
Strategy Director Richard Smart
8 More praise lavished on defence reform
Lord Levene's latest comments on reform of DE&S put the transformation work of the organisation in a positive light
9 Final respirator is handed over
The last of more than 300,000 General Service Respirators has been handed over at the end of the manufacturing phase of a £52 million contract
10 A400M support contract signed
DE&S' A400M team has awarded the first common in-service support contract for initial maintenance for the aircraft
16 Putting steel into MARS tankers
Two significant milestones have been achieved in the delivery of four support tankers for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
18 Fort Victoria ready for sea
One of the largest ships operated by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary has a new lease of life following a tenmonth refit
19 Herrick: the Redeployment
After more than a decade of UK operations in Afghanistan, military equipment is coming back from  Operation Herrick in one of the largest logistic tasks in modern UK military times
24 Facing the underwater threat
New ideas are shaping the way in which the Royal Navy detects mines at sea and performs surveys of the ocean floor
26 Get in, Go far!
That's the message to the young as the best engineering apprentices in DE&S went on show in the annual MOD awards in London
28 There's no i in team
New apprentices have been learning the values of teamwork and co-operation a long way from Abbey Wood
30 Squeezing out the costs
Staff have moved into top gear to find efficiencies in the DE&S C-Vehicle private finance initiative