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David Kirkpatrick
 
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David Kirkpatrick

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Professor David Kirkpatrick is an Associate Fellow, RUSI. He was trained as an aeronautical engineer and later as an economist. During his career in the Scientific Civil Service, he undertook aeronautical research (in aerodynamics and aircraft design) in the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, military operational analysis and project cost forecasting in the Ministry of Defence (MoD), and attaché duties on the British Defence Staff in Washington DC. Later he worked in the Defence Engineering Group (DEG) at University College London, which then was MoD's designated centre of excellence for education and research in defence equipment acquisition. In 1999 he was awarded a Personal Chair of Defence Analysis, and was later appointed Head of the DEG. He has been since 1995 an independent member of the Defence Science Advisory Council, and has been a specialist advisor to successive House of Commons Defence Committees since 1998.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He has written many published papers, on various aspects of aeronautics, defence acquisition, defence economics and military history, and is one of the principal authors of the book, 'Conquering Complexity - Lessons for Defence Systems Acquisition'.

 

RUSI articles and analysis by this author

The Next UK Defence Review Must Do Better 28 Nov 2011
How might the SDSR be remedied?
Cost and Timescale Forecasting for Defence Projects 23 Mar 2011
David Kirkpatrick reviews the causes of inaccuracy and bias in cost and timescale forecasting
MoD Plaque The Major Projects Report: More Data, Same Message 17 Mar 2010
The 2009 Major Projects Report may be more comprehensive than previous versions, but its worrying picture is familiar
Credit Crunch The Gathering Economic Storm and its Impact on UK Defence 14 Oct 2008
Depending on the severity of the global economic consequences of the current financial crisis, Britain's Ministry of Defence may have fewer resources to face more dangers in a radically-changed geopolitical environment.

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