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RUSI Defence Systems

Issue: Jun 2008, Vol. 11, No. 1

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Editorial Note Bill Kincaid introduces this issue of RUSI Defence Systems.
Bill Kincaid

The RDS Military Interview General Gagor, Chief of the Polish General Staff since February 2006, has an extensive background in UN peacekeeping missions and within NATO/EU.
Franciszek Gagor

The RDS Acquisition Interview Lieutenant-General Figgures is Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff for Equipment Capability in the UK MoD. He is responsible for providing equipment capability for the Armed Forces.
Andrew Figgures

Contention: Operational Analysis v. Military Judgment Two operational analysis practitioners, two users of OA and one military OA adviser consider what it can offer the military and what users should expect from it.
Various

Implementing Through-Life Capability Management The word ‘capability’ in through-life capability management changes the emphasis away from just equipment acquisition to cover all Defence Lines of Development.
RUSI Acquisition Focus

Through-Life Capability Management - One Year On Following on from the views of the RUSI Acquisition Focus, the MoD’s Director of Capability Improvement champions through-life capability management.
Jon Brittain

The Role of Industry in MoD's Capability Planning Ron Finlayson examines the need for joint MoD–industry capability planning and delivery and considers the benefits and risks of working more closely together.
Ron Finlayson

JSF Costs: Taking Off or Levelling Out The continuous cost escalation in military platforms has long been a major issue in defence planning. In the numbers versus complexity argument, costs are crucial.
Andrew Davies

NEC: Alive and Well in the MoD To many, C4ISTAR is an arcane world whose inhabitants speak a strange language which is not understood by those outside its magic circle. Yet it is of vital and growing importance to the performance of platforms and people.
Stu Butler

Adapting Process in C4ISR Capabilities Nick Justice is the Program Executive Officer for Command, Control, Communications Tactical – PEO C3T – in the US DoD.
Nick Justice

Interoperability: A Maritime Perspective This article examines the challenges of achieving interoperability in joint, allied and coalition operations.
Al Adams and Krist Zimmerman

The Final Fathom Commodore Tyrell describes the trial which has shown that, with effective connectivity and data search capability, submarines can be integrated into the joint operational picture.
Pat Tyrell

Providing Near-Term NEC Mercadente describes the Agile Thunder exercise in which shared situational awareness and distributed collaborative working was demonstrated.
Rich Mercadente

Making the Most of Warfighting Experimentation In this article, the authors look at warfighting experimentation and suggest that it has not delivered as big a change as might be expected.
Matthew Sleap et al

A SOA Approach to Delivering NEC Rob Jones contends that the time is now right for the adoption of a SOA approach to developing information systems.
Rob Jones

Acheiving NEC in the Ether Mendham discusses the dependence of today’s operations on the transmission of information and discusses ways of using the electromagnetic spectrum more efficiently to achieve this.
Roger Mendham

HF Supports Swedish Transformation Ward describes the advances in high-frequency radio and the way it is now used as a key building block in Sweden’s network-based defence initiative.
David Ward

Fast-Track Fielding of the Bushmaster It is not just in the C4ISTAR sector that the pace of acquisition is far less than the speed of technological change, because there is so much C4 and other civil-led technology in all systems.
Pedro Jooren

What Defence Can Learn from Motorsport This article looks at the world of motorsport and considers the lessons that it can teach the defence sector.
Gavin Ireland

Making Vision into Power Judkins looks at the development and procurement of two radar systems in 1940–41 - one successful, the other not – and the lessons that we can learn from them.
Phil Judkins

Is Defence Really a Special Case? Procurement of the differentiating capabilities on which military forces and security agencies depend to conduct their business cannot be left to market forces.
Les Gregory

A Strong European Defence Industry Hammarstrom explores what is needed to improve the competitiveness and cost-effectiveness of the European defence industries and describes the action that the European Defence Agency is taking.
Ulf Hammarstrom

The Future Aerospace and Defence Industry Godden examines the UK defence and aerospace industry and looks at the challenges in the future which must be met if UK industry is to remain competitive.
Ian Godden

Evolving Defence Business Models This article considers the future for Western defence industries and the challenges that both governments and industry will have to face.
Robbin Laird

Shake-Up of the Israeli Defence Industry The last fifteen months have seen considerable changes within the Israeli defence industry. Two of the three state-owned companies have become economically viable and financially profitable.
Eugene Kogan

Turkish Indigenous Development is Too Ambitious This article examines Turkey’s ambitious strategy of indigenous development and production for defence equipment and considers the problems with it.
Burak Bekdil

The Next Steps This article considers Defence Industrial Strategy costs, risks and skills levels and suggests what DIS 2 needs to do.
David Kirkpatrick

Coaching and the DIS Ayres examines the key issues that the Defence Industria Strategy Version 2 (DIS 2) needs to cover, and the part that coaching can play in achieving its aims.
Stephanie Ayres