RUSI Defence Systems

Issue: Jul 2006, Vol. 9, No. 1

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Editorial Notes Editor Bill Kincaid introduces the summer issue of RUSi Defence Systems
Bill Kincaid

RDS Military Interview: Richard Dannatt Commander-in-Chief, Land Command, UK, General Sir Richard Dannatt

The RDS Industrial Interview: Ian King With Ian King, Managing Director, Customer Solutions & Support, BAE SYSTEMS

The Defence Industrial Strategy: Is the 'System' Ready? This issue’s contributors - Paul Beaver, Professor David Kirkpatrick, Lewis Page, Antonia Feuchtwanger, the Right Honourable John Spellar MP

Acquisition Focus - The Defence Industrial Strategy: An Objective Overview The RUSI Acquisition Focus was formed in March 2006 to provide an expert objective view on aspects of defence equipment acquisition. At their first meeting on 20 March, the subject for discussion was the recently published UK Government White Paper, Defence Industrial Strategy.

Trends and Opportunities: US/UK Defence Co-operation Ron Sugar is the Chairman, CEO, and President of Northrop Grumman Corporation. In this article, which is based on a speech he gave at RUSI on 2 February 2006, he looks at co-operation between the UK and the US, the US’s Quadrennial Defense Review, the UK’s Defence Industrial Strategy and the problems of technology transfer.
Ron Sugar

A European Defence Policy? President of the Italian Centre for High Defence Studies
Lieutenant General Vincenzo Camporini

American and European Defence Industries: Future Trends and Challenges Centre for Strategic Studies and Operations, Anteon Corporation
Dr Robbin F. Laird

The Defence Industrial Strategy: Will it make a Difference Society of British Aerospace Companies
Derek Marshall

Value-for-Money: Defining and Measuring 'Value' Alex Weiss is on the staff of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of London. In this article he describes the research that has evaluated current practice in the UK MoD and suggests some possible improvements.
Dr Alex Weiss

The Carrier: A US View Norman Friedman is an internationally known strategist and naval historian and has written and lectured widely on naval strategy, design and weapons. He says that today’s US naval strategy is based on that of the Cold War, unlike the naval strategies of other NATO countries, and explains why aircraft carriers are essential to operations today.
Dr Norman Friedman

The US CVN 21 Aircraft Carriers Programme David Architzel is the US Program Executive Officer (PEO), Aircraft Carriers. He describes the concept and design of the future US aircraft carriers and how they will provide a major increase in capability at lower cost than the current class.
Rear Admiral David Architzel

India's Quest for an Indigenous Aircraft Carrier Arun Prakash is the Chief of the Indian Navy. Here he describes the history of India’s quest for an aircraft carrier force, the challenges that have been met over the last 60 years and the successful route to indigenous carrier construction.
Admiral Arun Prakash

Future Carriers: A French Industrial View Louis Cazaubon is the Project Director of the French aircraft carrier programme for the industrial prime contractor, MOPA2. Here he outlines the form of the Anglo- French co-operation in the design and development of the future aircraft carriers of the two countries, and the aim of reaching 80% commonality.
Louis Cazaubon

The Agony of Tough Choice Francis Tusa is the Editor of Defence Analysis. He sees the uncertainty over technology transfer in the Joint Strike Fighter programme as posing several fundamental questions on the timing and direction of UK’s future aircraft carrier programme, and calls for strong leadership in 2006.
Francis Tusa

French Naval Operations Today Pierre-François Forissier is Deputy Chief of the French Naval Staff. In this article, he describes the change from the French Navy of the Cold War era to that of today which has to operate within the wider spectrum of Joint, coalition and interagency operations, to achieve prevention, power projection and deterrence.
Vice Admiral Pierre-François Forissier

A Navy of Navies John Morgan is Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information, Plans and Strategy for the US Navy. In this article he outlines an unorthodox US vision for combating those nation states and non-state actors, including terrorists and pirates, that threaten maritime security – a thousand-ship navy, drawn from all nations who desire a safe maritime environment.
Vice Admiral John G. Morgan Jr

The Dutch Contribution to the UKNL Amphibious Force Marc Brinkman is the Military Assistant to the Deputy Commander Royal Netherlands Navy Command. In this article, he outlines the 30-year history of the extremely close international co-operation between British and Dutch marines and explains the way that the UKNL Amphibious Force is meeting the challenges of the future.
Major Marc Brinkman

Medium Forces: The Italian Army View Filiberto Cecchi is the Chief of Italian Army Staff. Here he outlines the move to medium forces through transformation of the Italian Army, the future equipment that is being developed in the short and medium terms, and the technology that is being considered for the longer term.
Lieutenant General Filiberto Cecchi

Challenges Within the UK AFV Environment Andrew Figgures is Technical Director of both the Defence Procurement Agency and the Defence Logistics Organisation in UK. In this article, he examines the challenges of developing new armoured vehicles today, with special reference to the UK’s Future Rapid Effects System.
Major General Andrew Figgures

Designing and Developing Armoured Vehicles Bill Machmer is the lead technical engineer at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control for the UK’s Future Rapid Effects System (FRES) Technical Demonstrator Programme. Here he looks at the major technical and industrial issues surrounding the development of armoured vehicles, with particular reference to FRES.
William L. Machmer

FRES: The Flagship Programme for Future British Fighting Force Simon Moon is Managing Director of Defence Systems for Atkins Consultants. He is responsible for Atkins’ business in the defence systems sector, including the current multi-million pound Systems House contract on the Future Rapid Effect System (FRES) programme for UK MoD. In this article, he discusses the FRES programme, its importance, the way it is being procured and the commitment to a ‘one team’ approach.
Simon Moon

Future? Rapid? Effects? Searching for Meaning in a World of NEC Christopher Dabrowski is a consultant with Frost & Sullivan’s Aerospace & Defence Practice, specialising in European defence markets. In this article, he questions whether the UK’s Future Rapid Effect System will deliver the capabilities that the UK MoD requires and suggests that valuable investment capital may be wasted.
Christopher Dabrowski

The E-Bomb Doug Beason is Associate Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US, and a board member of the Directed Energy Professional Society. Here he describes the advances made in developing directed energy weapons and their effect on future operations. Portions of this article have been taken from the author’s book, The E-Bomb, published in the UK by Perseus Press, 2006, and reviewed in the Winter/Spring edition of RUSI Defence Systems.
Dr Doug Beason

The German R&T Concept Dirk Ellinger is the Research and Technology Director in the German MoD. Here he describes the German research and technology concept, its relationships with research institutes, industry and the European Defence Agency, and goes on to give examples of innovative technologies that are now being researched.
Dirk Ellinger

Advanced Composition Structures Ben Godfrey is Senior Engineer in the Stress Group at MBDA UK Ltd. He looks at the advantages of using advanced composites in defence equipment designed for use at sea, on land and in the air.
Ben Godfrey

The PFI for NH90 Flight Training Hans-Peter Diedrich is the NH90 desk officer in the German Ministry of Defence. In this article he examines the training requirement for Germany’s NH90 helicopter fleet, and describes how it will be provided through a public-private partnership through a consortium formed by four European companies.
Hans-Peter Diedrich

Lessons for IT Training Jon Buttriss is the Director of Computeach and has been involved in IT and training for over 20 years. In this article he passes on some of the lessons he has learned about IT training and implementing training programmes.
Jon Buttriss

Reviews 'The Effect of R&D on Equipment Quality' and 'The Defence Industrial Strategy' are reviewed.