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RUSI Defence Systems

Issue: Oct 2007, Vol. 10, No. 2

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Editorial Notes Bill Kincaid

The RDS Acquisition Interview Interview with the US Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology).
The Honourable Claude Bolton

The RDS Military Interview Interview with the former UK's Chief of the General Staff.
General Sir Mike Jackson

contention@rusi.org - Technology and Acquisition: The Problem That Won't Go Away With contributions by Graham Jordan, John Dowdy, Bill Robins

The Debate: FRES - Size and Weight Debating the acquisition strategy for future armoured vehicles for the UK Army - Why has the requirement for C-130 lift now been jettisoned?
William F. Owen

Challenges to Acceptance and Proliferation of Tactical UGVs This article discusses the challenges in developing and deploying cost-effective UGVs on the battlefield.
Myron E. Mills

Use of Remote Control Vehicles in Explosive Ordnance Disposal Operations A discussion of current equipment and of the medium- and long-term requirements for Improvised Explosive Device Disposal
Captain Kevin Ivison GM

UGV Missions for the Military, Police and Fire Brigade Report on a study which examines the common requirements for robots in four areas of military and police operations.
Carl Lundberg, Roger Reinhold and Henrik Christensen

From Pack Mules to Fighting Scouts This article explores the potential roles for unmanned ground vehicles as new concepts of operation, designs and products emerge.
James Masey

Physical Safety of Armed Forces Has Top Priority This article discusses the roles that unmanned ground vehicles can play in the land battle and describes a new unmanned vehicle that can play a key role in the protection of military bases.
Ulf Stremmel

The Future of the UK Defence Industry An evaluation of what has really changed since the MoD issued for the first time its future Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) two years ago.
Ross Bradley

The Helicopter Day/Night, All-Environment Challenge A description of the requirement for providing helicopter crews with better situation awareness in low light levels and ‘brown-out’. A deployable solution may not be far away.
Geoff Clarkson, Dean Moore and David Thorndycraft

Is There a Case for the Tiltrotor? An objective look at some of the performance capabilities of the tiltrotor versus the present and potential future capabilities of the helicopter.
Dr J. Gordon Leishman

Rotorcraft Technology Enhancements for Future Warfighting Needs This article describes advances in helicopter and tiltrotor technologies, both manned and unmanned, and how these will improve performance, not least in heavy-lift capability.
J. Patrick Donnelly

The Conspiracy of Optimism A ‘conspiracy of optimism’ exists between MoD and industry, each having a propensity, in many cases knowingly, to strike agreements that are so optimistic as to be unsustainable in terms of cost, timescale or performance.

A Closer Look at Acquisition Performance This article examines acquisition in US and UK and compare cost and schedule performance on major programmes in the two countries.
John Dowdy and Scott Gebicke

Putting the User in the Driving Seat: Procuring ICS to Meet Warfighting Realities A sufficiently aggressive assurance regime is of critical importance, in order to ensure that the UK’s end-to-end information system will function outside a trials environment.
Chirstiaan Hesse

Defence Acquisition Change: Developing the Skills and Behaviours The changes in the training and education of acquisition staff that are being put in place to implement the recommendations of the Defence Training Review and the Enabling Acquisition Change report.
Commander Stuart Young RN

Strategic Partnering: The Emerging Relationship between Industry and the MoD This article considers the effect on the UK MoD and the defence industry of the huge transfer of risk from the former to the latter under the new Defence Industrial Strategy.
Len Pannett and Dean Gilmore

BAE Systems: National Asset or Global Chameleon? The relationship between the UK MoD and BAE Systems, and the role the latter plays as both a national champion and a global defence enterprise.
Paul Nixon and David Moore

Whither the Defence Logistics Organisation? This article studies the consequences for the interface between the user and the logistics organisation as a result of the creation of the UK’s Defence Equipment and Support organisation.
Commodore (retired) Peter Tatham

Stabilization and the Reconstruction: Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan This article examines the challenges of reconstruction in stabilization operations and draw lessons from what is happening on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rod Matthews and Jay Lucas

Reconstruction and Development in Afghanistan: A Royal Engineer Regiment’s Experiences This article describes the challenges encountered by the 28 Engineer Regiment in Afghanistan and how these were met. However, it also warns that the techniques evolved may not be applicable to other operations.
Lieutenant Colonel Phil Sherwood

‘Soft Toolboxes’ for Combat Engineering This article looks at how software programmes can help combat engineers and describes the advantages that the new software toolkit, Makefast, can bring to the Army in the field.
Chris Cleverley

The Future Surface Combatant The history of surface combatants and ideas to shape the future design of the Royal Navy’s surface fleet.
Dr Norman Friedman

Small but Able Frigate Fleets Future small but able frigate fleets demand greater flexibility of use to maximize cost effectiveness, and combat systems’ modularity has a role to play.
Dr Nik Moss

Future Surface Combatants in the Royal Swedish Navy This article looks at the capabilities of surface combatants in the Royal Swedish Navy and discusses present and future requirements.
Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad

Strategic and Operational Mobility for the Czech Armed Forces The challenges facing a new land-locked member of NATO in supporting expeditionary operations under NATO or EU authority.
Colonel Zbyšek Korecki and Major Martin Rejzek

Review Reviewed: • The Helicopter: Thinking Forward, Looking Back.