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RUSI Defence Systems

Issue: Jun 2007, Vol. 10, No. 1

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Editorial Notes Bill Kincaid

The RDS Military Interview Interview with the Chief of Defence, The Netherlands.
General Dick Berlijn

The RDS Industrial Interview Chief Operating Officer, MBDA
Guy Griffiths

contention@rusi.org - Procurement: Cost, Time and Waste With contributions by Lord Guthrie, David Diamond, Lewis Page, Rick Hussey, and Clark Vasey.

The Debate: Balancing Criticism With contributions by Bruno Carre, Keith Hayward, Gordon Wilson, Ric Cheadle, John Weston, Philip Pugh, Paul Nixon, and David Moore.

Acquisition Focus: Why Does it all Take So Long? Collapsing the length of the procurement cycle will bring huge benefits. Achieving this will not be easy, but the recent Pathfinders show it is possible.

Is Europe a Help or a Hindrance? With the emergence of new poles of power, European nations cannot afford to follow fragmented and uncoordinated acquisition.
Nazzareno Cardinali

Can European Co-operation Deliver Competitive, Cutting-edge Defence Equipment? This article identifies both the rewards and the risks of international collaborative equipment programmes.
Laurent Giovachini

A New Paradigm in International Collaboration A description of collaborative research in a UK–US alliance, its organisation, and what it may mean to soldiers in the operational front line.
Thomas Killion, Phil Sutton et al

The Submarine Industrial Base The debate on the renewal of Britain’s submarine-based nuclear deterrent focused attention on the UK Submarine Industrial Base.
Gavin Ireland

The Public Sector Acquisition Challenge For the last 20 years the NAO annual Major Projects Report has highlighted the variable performance of the highest value defence procurement projects.
John Bourn

Efficiency in Government Procurement This article considers procurement across all government departments, and derives the three key tools for greater efficiency.
John Oughton

The UK Industrial Manufacturing Base This article explains the importance of manufacturing in the UK economy and lays out a blueprint for a successful manufacturing base in the future.
Andrew Graves

1000-Ship Navies, Maritime Domain Awareness and Networks: The Policy Nexus This article looks at the political, security, and efficiency challenges of networking a 1000-ship navy.
Paul Mitchell

Achieving the Global Maritime Partnership: Operational Needs and Technical Realities The Global Maritime Partnership Initiative (originally ‘The 1000-Ship Navy’) has been enshrined as a key tenet of United States naval policy.
George Galdorisi and Darren Sutton

Maritime Security Operation: The French Perspective Admiral de Dainville is the Chief of Naval Staff, France.
Oudot de Dainville

Australian Participation in Regional and Global Maritime Security Operations Maritime security in Australian waters has received significant attention in recent years and much has been done to secure Australia’s massive maritime borders.
Gregory Gilbert

Making Waves and Building Bridges: Dutch Experiences in the Arabian Sea This article examines the lessons learned from the Dutch experience of operations in the Arabian Sea with Combined Task Force 150.
Marc Houben

The Infantry Section: Lifting its Capability This article describes the improvements to the infantry section’s capability since the Falklands campaign.
Alec Bain

UK Platoon Weapons and the Weight Capability Myth This article discusses the UK’s infantry platoon weapons mix and considers how the weight carried by the infantryman could be reduced.
William Owen

Objective Gateway: Information to the Battlefield’s Edge Objective Gateway will provide warfighters with an order of magnitude increase in connectivity and capability in a totally digital battlespace.
Michael Peterson

From Where Does Information Get its Military Value? This article discusses the value of data to military commanders and the act of synthesis by which humans gather together the dominant facts on the battlefield.
Alfred Kaufamn

Battlefield Management Systems: Perspectives from Singapore This article examines the challenges that battlefield management systems (BMS) must overcome.
Pang Hee Hon

ISTAR-EW in the Italian Army A discussion of the Italian Army ISTAR-EW Brigade's role, organisation and equipment.
Maurizio Borgese

Unmanned Air Vehicles and Active Imaging This article discusses the need for, and problems of, modern and highly capable sensors that can be launched from, and recovered to, maritime platforms.
Jack Green

The Path to Doing Better Things: A Service-Oriented Approach to Supporting Future Operations What are the advantages of a service-oriented approach to developing information systems and to what extent it will ‘enable’ NEC?
Grant Hume and Robin Jones

A Time to Refocus C4ISTAR Training? Unless that training is focused on the decision-making process, we will not maximise the benefits of C4ISTAR
Trevor Nash

Information Management Training & Education: The Path to C4ISTAR Exploitation What is the training needed, and now being provided, to maintain the edge on adversaries by achieving the greatest effect from C4ISTAR assets?
Nick Gasson

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