Purchasing in the firing line
13 September 2012
Two years ago, the Ministry of Defence announced huge changes to the way it buys everything from bullets to battleships. Paul Donovan asks whether the campaign to get new equipment in service quicker is succeeding
The UK’s defence forces are up against an enemy much closer to home than any foreign foe, if some of the headlines over recent years are to be believed. Rifles that jam, unsafe armoured personnel carriers and tanks that don’t fire properly are among the potentially catastrophic problems they face.
All have drawn attention to a procurement process that often...