Defence Equipment & Support
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Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) is the name of a new merged procurement and support organisation within the UK Ministry of Defence. It comes into being on 2 April 2007, bringing together the MoD's Defence Procurement Agency and the Defence Logistics Organisation under the leadership of General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue as the first Chief of Defence Materiel.
The new organisation will have 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 will operate as a single Top Level Budget from the outset.
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[edit] History
Defence Equipment and Support will be established on 2 April 2007.
On 6 March 2007 it was announced that Lord Drayson has been promoted to Minister of State for Defence Equipment and Support. He will oversee the new Defence Equipment and Support Organisation. [1]
[edit] Major projects
DE&S will manage a variety of defence procurement projects.
[edit] See also
- Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
- Defence Logistics Organisation
- Defence Procurement Agency
- Royal Air Force
- Royal Navy
- British Army
[edit] External links
- Defence Procurement Agency
- Ministry of Defence
- Defence Logistics Organisation
- MOD Defence Communications Services Agency (DCSA)
- MOD Home page
- New organisation structure unveiled
