RUSI Defence Systems

Issue: Nov 2006, Vol. 9, No. 2

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Editorial Notes Acquisition issues, rather than equipment, appear to be dominating thinking just now.
Bill Kincaid

The RDS Military Interview: General William T. Hobbins Tom Hobbins is Commander, US Air Forces Europe

Contention@rusi.org Our Unaffordable Defence Policy: What now? Will this Government or future governments increase defence funding by some 30%? If not, do we cut commitments drastically and reduce still further the size of our Armed Forces?

The Debate: Implementing the DIS The Minister for Defence Procurement, Lord Drayson – the architect of the Strategy – and Bill Jeffrey, Permanent Under Secretary of State at the MoD respond to criticisms posed in RUSI Defence Systems
Lord Drayson and Bill Jeffrey

The Debate: Innovation and Research Spending In our recent Winter/Spring edition, the subject of our contention@ rusi.org section was ‘The Decline and Fall of Defence Research’ in which three industrialists and two defence commentators criticised the MoD for reducing spend on research over the last 15 years. The recent Defence Industrial Strategy contained many warm words on research and development without quite convincing us that action would follow.

Submarine Requirements for the Global War on Terrorism The roles of the submarine in the war on terrorism, and looks at future technologies that will further increase the submarine’s effectiveness
Commander David Kelly

Delivering Flexible Effect from Underwater How technology has enabled Astute to enter service with new and enhanced capability which points the way to the future evolution of the nuclear submarine
Commodore Mark Anderson

Future Submarines As the building of the Astute class submarines advances, the author discusses the design and affordability of future submarines.
Murray Easton

German Submarines – Capabilities and Potential In this article, the author describes the latest German submarine programmes and their potential for the future.
Captain Raimund Wallner

Advanced Submarine Maintenance Authors describe the maintenance of the Swedish submarine exercising for two years with the US Navy in the Pacific, and the changes that have been made to the maintenance system.
Andreas Lörinc et al

Artillery - Continuity and Change An assessment of today's Artillery developments
General (retd) Dutch Shoffner

Artillery in Decline? Jonathan Bailey argues that the demise of field artillery is a delusion too far
Major General (retd) Jonathan Bailey

The Cost of Precision What is required for a full precision attack capability and discusses its affordability?
Dr Alan L. Moore Jr

Artillery: Where Now? Lewis Page looks at the unique selling points of artillery and, as an outsider, suggests a novel approach for the future.
Lewis Page

ACQUISITION FOCUS: Implementation of the Defence Industrial Strategy Factors affecting the implementation of the Defence Industrial Strategy.

PPP Opportunities and Risks Three key questions arising from the widespread use by the UK Ministry of Defence of public-private partnerships for the delivery of long-term services
Professor Matthew Uttley

Investing in Relationships Collaborative relationships in the delivery of defence projects
Tim Banfield and Julie Exton

Developing a Collaborative Gold Standard The author describes the birth and development of the alliance between MoD and industry to deliver surface ship support effectively and efficiently with significant cost savings.
Stuart Leonard

DIS The Holy Grail for SMEs? Paul Withers works for STS Defence, leads the Defence Sector within the Farnborough Aerospace Consortium (FAC) and is involved in Defence Ventures, a virtual ‘prime’ grouping defence-related SMEs within southern England under the auspices of the FAC. In this article he asks how the Defence Industrial Strategy will help small and mediumsized enterprises, and finds little to enthuse about.
Paul Withers

Engaging Innovative Technologies Ben Dobson is Head of Defence Systems at DML Group. Here he looks at a business model developed to engage Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the defence supply chain, in line with the Defence Industrial Strategy objectives.
Dr Ben Dobson

Little Booths at Farnborough An analysis of selection of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to understand what makes them tick and what their needs are.
Robin Ashby

Open Competition in Europe Catriona Hatton

EDA Should Industry Get Involved? Derek Marshall

Military Operations Today - Interoperability from the Swedish Perspective Tommy Jeppsson is the Swedish exchange officer at the Finnish National Defence College in Helsinki where he teaches strategy. Previous posts include staff appointments on missions in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is frequently published in Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish newspapers and magazines with articles covering security policy and military theory. In this article he looks at the need for, and the achievement of, interoperability in international operations.
Lieutenant Colonel Tommy Jeppsson

Military Operations Today - A Canadian Perspective Peter Gizewski is Strategic Analyst at the Center for Operational Research and Analysis, Department of National Defence in Canada. In this article, he looks at the challenges of today’s volatile and complex security environment, and the requirements to meet these challenges successfully.
Peter Gizewski

Electronic Security Implications of NEC Zia Hayat is a BAE Systems research engineer and is completing a doctorate at the University of Southampton. In this article, he discusses the implications of increased operational tempo on the traditional information security triangle of confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, and states that, if alternative solutions to the current cautious approach of partitioned infrastructures are not sought, then it is likely that security accreditation requirements will prove a major stumbling block to NEC operations.
Zia Hayat

Achieving Precision Effect in a Network Environment Precision weapons are central to modern warfighting across the spectrum of operations. Why and how weapon systems should be integrated is the theme of this article, which has been developed taking the current DEC ISTAR strategy into account.
Martin Hodgkinson and Dr Craig Smith

Astor: Key Component in the Sensor to Shooter Link George McFarlane is the Director of Business Development at Raytheon Systems Ltd, and was formerly the Operational Requirements desk officer for Astor. He describes how Astor’s linkage to other programmes in the future offers the opportunity for a network-enabled TST capability to engage time-sensitive targets.
George McFarlane

Time Sensitive Targeting: Irrelevant to Today's Fights ‘TX’ Hammes is a retired US Marine Corps colonel, who is currently doing a DPhil at Oxford University. He argues that timesensitive targeting can be counter-productive in counter-insurgency warfare and that, instead, we should focus on mission sensitive targeting.
Thomas X Hammes