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Acquisition in a Period of Severe Financial Restraint

The RUSI Acquisition Focus was set up in February 2006 to provide expert, objective views on aspects of defence equipment acquisition. Its deliberations are published three times a year in RUSI Defence Systems. In this its thirteenth paper, the group examine ways in which the Government could make the improvements that would stop the defence equipment plan repeatedly overheating.

The members of the RUSI Acquisition Focus are: John Weston (Chairman), Tim Banfield (NAO), Bob Barton (member of NDIC TLCM strategy group, BAE Systems), Vice Admiral (retd) Sir Jeremy Blackham (formerly EADS UK President,
now independent defence commentator), Sir Brian Burridge (Senior Military Adviser, Finmeccanica), Hugh Colver (Public Affairs consultant, formerly MoD and BAE Systems), John Dowdy (Director, McKinsey), Professor Christopher Elliott (GD UK), Graham Jordan (formerly S&T Director, MoD), Gerry Paulus (Managing Director, SVGC Ltd), Major General (retd) Bill Robins (formerly DGICS, MoD), Professor Trevor Taylor (Cranfield University and Professorial Fellow at RUSI), Bill
Kincaid (Editor RUSI Defence Systems)

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