Defence Equipment & Support

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DE&S headquarters, Abbey Wood, Bristol
DE&S headquarters, Abbey Wood, Bristol

Coordinates: 51°30′12″N 2°33′33″W / 51.5033, -2.55917 Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) is the name of the merged procurement and support organisation within the UK Ministry of Defence. It came 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 has 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.

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[edit] Mission

The DE&S mission is:

To equip and support our armed forces for operations now and in the future.

[edit] History

Defence Equipment and Support was established on 2 April 2007.

DE&S is overseen by the Minister of State for Defence Equipment and Support, in which role the first Min(DES), Lord Drayson was succeeded by Baroness Taylor, on 7 November 2007.[1][2]

[edit] Major projects

DE&S manages a variety of defence procurement and support projects inherited from the DLO and DPA. Examples of current and future procurement projects include:

[edit] Vessels

[edit] Aircraft

[edit] Vehicles

[edit] Munitions

[edit] Other

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lord Drayson to take Leave of Absence
  2. ^ Baroness Taylor appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State