WORLD DEFENCE SYSTEMS ISSUE Nine A Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies Publication Edited by Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold CB, FRAeS - Director of RUSI

Introduction
Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold, Director,
Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies

One on One
Mike Turner
CEO, BAE Systems

Strategic Deployment

• Littoral Warfare in the First Decade of the 21st Century
  By Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham KCB BA (from a speech at delivered at IQPC on 19th November 2002)
• Strategic Deployment – A Capability View
  By Rear Admiral Charles Style CBE, Capability Manager (Strategic Deployment) Ministry of Defence
• Strategic Deployment: A US Navy Perspective
  By Vice Admiral David L. Brewer III, United States Navy, Commander, Military Sealift Command
• Strategic Airlift
  By Wing Commander Jon Jenkins Royal Air Force, EC(DSR)3

Technology

• Strategic Planning for the Support of Air and Space Expeditionary Forces
  By Dr. Robert Tripp, Senior Military Analyst
  Dr. Mahyar Amouzegar, Senior Military Analyst & Dr. C. Robert Roll, Director of Resource Management, RAND Project Air Force.
• Present and Future Transport Innovation
  By Rick Sanford, with Robert Valla and Blaine Rawdon, Boeing Phantom Works
• Automatic Identification Technology & Maintenance Management
  By Mike Foster, Oxley Systems
• Military Hovercraft: Towards the Next Generation?
  By Thomas Withington
• Internet Protocol – The Commercial Standard for Future Military Communications
  By Tristan Wood, Managing Director, Livewire Digital (www.livewire.co.uk)
• S.W.O.T. that SUBMARINE
  By G H Fuller CEng FRINA FIMarEST FRSA RCNC, Treasurer RINA, Consultant Maritime & defence

Smart Acquisition: The Next Steps

• The Leverage of Research and Technology I
  By Andrew Sleigh MA CPhys FinstP, Managing Director (Defence Solutions) QinetiQ
• The Leverage of Research and Technology II
  By Graham Jordan, Science and Technology Director, Ministry of Defence
• What the Customer Wants
  By Commodore David Cooke Royal Navy, Director Equipment Plan, Ministry of Defence
• Improving Innovation and Developing Processes
  By Charles Draper, Director General, Smart Acquisition
• Improving Innovation: The Role of the Whole Life Costing Team
  By Jon Swift, Whole Life Costing Director, Defence Logistics Organization
• Improving Innovation: Plotting the Way Ahead for Smart Acquisition
  By John Dowdy, Director, McKinsey & Co Inc, UK

Defence Industry

• Vosper Thornycroft Group – An Economic Profile
  By Dr Michael Asteris, University of Portsmouth
• Value for Money: How MoD Seeks to Obtain, and its Suppliers Provide Best Value for Money
  By Dr Alex Weiss, Defence Engineering Group, University College London

 

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