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Defence Equipment and Support

DE&S logo.png
Agency overview
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 / 51.5033; -2.55917
Minister responsible

  • Guto Bebb MP, Minister of State for Defence Procurement

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]




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Strategic governance


    • 2.1 Defence Equipment and Support Board




  • 3 Direction and oversight


    • 3.1 Executive Committee Defence Equipment and Support


      • 3.1.1 Sub Committees






  • 4 Administration of (DE&S) and Senior Leadership


    • 4.1 Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support


      • 4.1.1 Former leadership


        • 4.1.1.1 Chiefs of Defence Materiel


          • 4.1.1.1.1 Chief of Corporate Performance


          • 4.1.1.1.2 Chief Operating Officer








    • 4.2 Chiefs of Materiel for Air/Army/Navy/Joint-Enablers


      • 4.2.1 Chief of Materiel (Fleet)/Chief of Fleet Support


      • 4.2.2 Chief of Materiel (Submarines)


        • 4.2.2.1 Directorate of Submarine Acquisitions


        • 4.2.2.2 Directorate of Submarines Support




      • 4.2.3 Chief of Materiel (Ships)


        • 4.2.3.1 Directorate of Ships Support


        • 4.2.3.2 Directorate of Ships Acquisition




      • 4.2.4 Chief of Materiel (Land)


        • 4.2.4.1 Directorate of Land Equipment


        • 4.2.4.2 Directorate of Weapons




      • 4.2.5 Chief of Materiel (Air)


        • 4.2.5.1 Directorate of Air Support


        • 4.2.5.2 Directorate of Combat Air




      • 4.2.6 Chief of Materiel (Joint Enablers)


        • 4.2.6.1 Directorate of Helicopters






    • 4.3 Submarine Delivery Agency


    • 4.4 Functions


      • 4.4.1 Directorate-General (Commercial)


        • 4.4.1.1 Commercial


        • 4.4.1.2 Commercial Function


        • 4.4.1.3 Contract Management


        • 4.4.1.4 Corporate Function Manager




      • 4.4.2 Directorate-General (Resources)


        • 4.4.2.1 Finance


        • 4.4.2.2 Transformation


        • 4.4.2.3 Information Technology


        • 4.4.2.4 Corporate Function Manager




      • 4.4.3 Directorate Human Resources


        • 4.4.3.1 Insight and Research


        • 4.4.3.2 Corporate Function Manager




      • 4.4.4 Directorate, General Programmes


        • 4.4.4.1 Corporate Function Managers




      • 4.4.5 Directorate, Corporate Operations


        • 4.4.5.1 Corporate Function Managers








  • 5 Major projects


    • 5.1 Vessels


    • 5.2 Aircraft


    • 5.3 Vehicles


    • 5.4 Munitions


    • 5.5 Other




  • 6 Main locations


  • 7 References


  • 8 Attribution


  • 9 External links





History[edit]




DE&S headquarters, Abbey Wood, Bristol


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[edit]



Defence Equipment and Support Board[edit]


Includes:[1]











































Title Name Date
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[edit]



Executive Committee Defence Equipment and Support[edit]


Includes:[3]





















































Title Name Date
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[edit]


Includes: The following subordinate Committees provide specialised support to the Executive Committee.[1]











Name
Business Case Review Committee
Innovation & Prosperity Committee
People Committee
Performance Committee
Safety Committee
Security Committee
Transformation Committee


Administration of (DE&S) and Senior Leadership[edit]


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[edit]






















Chief of Defence Materiel
Name
Date held

Tony Douglas[1]
2015-2018

Michael Bradley[4]
January 2018-May 2018

Sir Simon Bollom[5]
May 2018 – Present


Former leadership[edit]



Chiefs of Defence Materiel[edit]

















Chief of Defence Materiel
Name
Date held
General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue[6]
2 April 2007 - December 2010 [7]

Bernard Gray[8]
From 4 January 2011


Chief of Corporate Performance[edit]

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.














Chief of Corporate Performance
Name
Date held
Trevor Woolley [9]
20?? to 1 June 2011


Chief Operating Officer[edit]

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.














Chief Operating Officer
Name
Date held
Dr Andrew Tyler [9]
2006 - 1 May 2011


Chiefs of Materiel for Air/Army/Navy/Joint-Enablers[edit]


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[edit]






















Chief of Materiel (Fleet)/Chief of Fleet Support[11]
Name
Date held
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)[edit]














Chief of Materiel (Submarines)
Name
Date held
Vice Admiral Sir Simon Lister [10]
2017 -


Directorate of Submarine Acquisitions[edit]













Director Submarine Acquisition
Name
Date held
Rear-Admiral Paul Methven [10]
2017 -


Directorate of Submarines Support[edit]













Chief Strategic Systems Executive & Director Submarines Support
Name
Date held
Rear-Admiral Keith Beckett [10]
2017 -


Chief of Materiel (Ships)[edit]














Chief of Materiel (Ships)
Name
Date held
Sir Simon Bollom [10]
2017 - 2018


Directorate of Ships Support[edit]













Director Ship Support
Name
Date held
Neal Lawson [10]
2017 -


Directorate of Ships Acquisition[edit]













Director Ship Acquisition
Name
Date held
Henry Parker [10]
2017 -


Chief of Materiel (Land)[edit]


























Chief of Materiel (Land)/Quartermaster-General to the Forces
Name
Date held
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[edit]













Director Land Equipment
Name
Date held
Major-General, Robert Talbot Ric [10]
2017 -


Directorate of Weapons[edit]













Director Weapons
Name
Date held
Richard Smart [10]
2017 -


Chief of Materiel (Air)[edit]


























Chief of Materiel (Air)
Name
Date held
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[edit]













Director Air Support
Name
Date held
Adrian Baguley [10]
2017 -


Directorate of Combat Air[edit]













Director Combat Air
Name
Date held
Air-Vice-Marshal Keith Bethell [10]
2017 -


Chief of Materiel (Joint Enablers)[edit]






















Chief of Materiel (Joint Enablers)
Name
Date held
Dr Andrew Tyler
1 May 2011 to 21 June 2011
Trevor Woolley
1 June 2011
Peter Worrall [10]
October 2013 – Present


Directorate of Helicopters[edit]













Director Helicopters
Name
Date held
Air-Vice-Marshal Graham Russell [10]
2017 -


Submarine Delivery Agency[edit]














Chief Executive
Name
Date held
Ian Booth [10]
2017 -


Functions[edit]



Directorate-General (Commercial)[edit]














Director-General, Commercial
Name
Date held
Nick Elliot [10]
2015


Commercial[edit]













Director DE&S Commercial Operations
Name
Date held
Alan Peter [10]
2017 -


Commercial Function[edit]













Director Commercial Capability
Name
Date held
Mike Greatwich [10]
2017 -


Contract Management[edit]













Director Commercial Improvements
Name
Date held
Morag Stuart [10]
2017 -


Corporate Function Manager[edit]













Commercial Corporate Function Manager
Name
Date held
Stephen Palmer [10]
2017 -


Directorate-General (Resources)[edit]














Director-General, Resources
Name
Date held
Michael Bradley [10]
2016-2018


Finance[edit]













Director Financial Plans & Analysis
Name
Date held
David Johnson [10]
2017 -


Transformation[edit]













Director Transformation
Name
Date held
Geoff Robins [10]
2017 -


Information Technology[edit]













Director Chief Information Officer
Name
Date held
TBA
2017 -


Corporate Function Manager[edit]













Finance and Accounting Corporate Function Manager
Name
Date held
Rob Young [10]
2017 -


Directorate Human Resources[edit]














Director Human Resources
Name
Date held
Don Cuthbert [10]
2016


Insight and Research[edit]













Director HR Insight and Research
Name
Date held
David Ball [10]
2017 -


Corporate Function Manager[edit]













HR Corporate Function Manager
Name
Date held
Maureen Doherty [10]
2017 -


Directorate, General Programmes[edit]














Director General Programmes
Name
Date held
Tony Chisnall [10]
2017


Corporate Function Managers[edit]













Corporate Function Managers
Name
Date held
4 officials supporting DirGenProgmm's [10]
2017 -


Directorate, Corporate Operations[edit]














Director Corporate Operations
Name
Date held
Barry Burton [10]
2017


Corporate Function Managers[edit]













Corporate Function Managers
Name
Date held
3 officials supporting DirCorpOps [10]
2017 -


Major projects[edit]


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[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]



  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]



  • 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[edit]


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[edit]





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  8. ^ Bernard Gray appointed Chief of Defence Materiel Ministry of Defence, 16 December 2010


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  15. ^ London Gazette 58252 dated 20 February 2007


  16. ^ London Gazette 59191 dated 22 September 2009


  17. ^ Defence View points June 2011


  18. ^ Royal Air Force Air Rank Appointments List 08/09 retrieved 17 November 2008


  19. ^ Defence Equipment and Support. Defence Equipment and Support Corporate Plan 2016 – 2019 (PDF). Ministry of Defence. p. 23.


  20. ^ ab "DE&S Corporate Plan 2016-2019" (PDF). UK Government. Retrieved 13 September 2016.


  21. ^ "Giant MoD Donnington Buildings Take Shape". Shropshire Star. Retrieved 13 September 2016.




Attribution[edit]


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



External links[edit]



  • Official website

  • DE&S Organisation Structure (May 2017)











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