http://rusi.org/ web@rusi.org en-us Copyright 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FD91A47DF1/ Ayres examines the key issues that the Defence Industria Strategy Version 2 (DIS 2) needs to cover, and the part that coaching can play in achieving its aims. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FD83B6331E/ This article considers Defence Industrial Strategy costs, risks and skills levels and suggests what DIS 2 needs to do. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FD77743DF4/ This article examines Turkey’s ambitious strategy of indigenous development and production for defence equipment and considers the problems with it. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FD66DC1CFD/ The last fifteen months have seen considerable changes within the Israeli defence industry. Two of the three state-owned companies have become economically viable and financially profitable. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FD571489EF/ This article considers the future for Western defence industries and the challenges that both governments and industry will have to face. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FD4C5A5E1D/ Godden examines the UK defence and aerospace industry and looks at the challenges in the future which must be met if UK industry is to remain competitive. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FD3B846EDA/ Hammarstrom explores what is needed to improve the competitiveness and cost-effectiveness of the European defence industries and describes the action that the European Defence Agency is taking. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FD2EEB8E84/ Procurement of the differentiating capabilities on which military forces and security agencies depend to conduct their business cannot be left to market forces. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FD241A2225/ Judkins looks at the development and procurement of two radar systems in 1940–41 - one successful, the other not – and the lessons that we can learn from them. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FD1895889A/ This article looks at the world of motorsport and considers the lessons that it can teach the defence sector. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FD0BFA46B3/ It is not just in the C4ISTAR sector that the pace of acquisition is far less than the speed of technological change, because there is so much C4 and other civil-led technology in all systems. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FC50502C3F/ Ward describes the advances in high-frequency radio and the way it is now used as a key building block in Sweden’s network-based defence initiative. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FC44DACE25/ Mendham discusses the dependence of today’s operations on the transmission of information and discusses ways of using the electromagnetic spectrum more efficiently to achieve this. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FC2C518A8E/ Rob Jones contends that the time is now right for the adoption of a SOA approach to developing information systems. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FC2009AF9A/ In this article, the authors look at warfighting experimentation and suggest that it has not delivered as big a change as might be expected. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FC1077EF97/ Mercadente describes the Agile Thunder exercise in which shared situational awareness and distributed collaborative working was demonstrated. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FBF01D1BC0/ Commodore Tyrell describes the trial which has shown that, with effective connectivity and data search capability, submarines can be integrated into the joint operational picture. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FBDCDA948D/ This article examines the challenges of achieving interoperability in joint, allied and coalition operations. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FBC81031CE/ Nick Justice is the Program Executive Officer for Command, Control, Communications Tactical – PEO C3T – in the US DoD. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FB95FECCFE/ To many, C4ISTAR is an arcane world whose inhabitants speak a strange language which is not understood by those outside its magic circle. Yet it is of vital and growing importance to the performance of platforms and people. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FB785BC335/ The continuous cost escalation in military platforms has long been a major issue in defence planning. In the numbers versus complexity argument, costs are crucial. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FB6A146071/ Ron Finlayson examines the need for joint MoD–industry capability planning and delivery and considers the benefits and risks of working more closely together. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FB5BE1788E/ Following on from the views of the RUSI Acquisition Focus, the MoD’s Director of Capability Improvement champions through-life capability management. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FB4C294A14/ The word ‘capability’ in through-life capability management changes the emphasis away from just equipment acquisition to cover all Defence Lines of Development. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FB37FEEDA3/ Two operational analysis practitioners, two users of OA and one military OA adviser consider what it can offer the military and what users should expect from it. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FB2B69DB6E/ Lieutenant-General Figgures is Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff for Equipment Capability in the UK MoD. He is responsible for providing equipment capability for the Armed Forces. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484FB110B666D/ General Gagor, Chief of the Polish General Staff since February 2006, has an extensive background in UN peacekeeping missions and within NATO/EU. June 2008 http://rusi.org/publication/defencesystems/rss/ref:A484F9ACD0CB3E/ Bill Kincaid introduces this issue of RUSI Defence Systems. June 2008