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It was reported today that the MOD will receive up to a further £100m this financial year to enable the Tornado fighter jets, Hercules transport aircraft and Navy frigates to continue active service, although they had been designated for drawdown in the SDR in 2010. In a move that is likely to cause disquiet [...] Over the years I have seen many instances of companies announcing cost reduction programmes, however the strategy undertaken has been to exercise leverage on their suppliers to simply reduce prices. Simple you may say, however has that achieved the real cost reduction sought and what has it done to the future relationships, enabling further [...] A new report by Frost and Sullivan explores the issues surrounding the need to maintain availability, increase capability and reduce costs. Identifying these issues as being experienced across the global defence market it provides insight into the adoption of TLCM, often referred to as availability contracting. Optimatrix has supported a number of availability contracting [...] Today the MOD launches the new organisation to manage Defence property and infrastructure, as part of the Transforming Defence Programme, headed by Lord Levene; it combines the current disparate operations of approximately 7,000 civilian and military personnel. The aim is to provide the MOD a single point from which it can manage all of [...] |
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