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J-UCAS: Inventing a Weapon System for the Information Age

Michael Francis and Michael Hirschberg look at the progress and promise of the world’s most advanced unmanned aircraft that is expected to transform the battlespace of the 21st century.

EDITORIAL NOTES

In this issue...

Saving Time and Cost: A Comparisson between the Defence and Civil Aerospace Sectors

The research objective of the Long-Term In Service Support (LOTISS) team is to improve the efficiency of inter-firm relations by comparing four principal facets of typical defence and civil aerospace transactions.

Complex Management Simplified: Lessons Learned from the DFTS Private Finance Initiative Programme

John Seale discusses the lessons learned during the first seven years of the Defence Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS) at BT.

Astute, Trident and SSGN: Land Attack for the Royal Navy Submarine Service

Lee Willett examines the UK and US options for future ground attack from submarines in the future and considers the challenges for the UK submarine flotilla.

Managing Procurement Risk

Bruce George examines how risk leads to project delays and cost overruns, and how risk can be managed better.

The Air Force Contribution to Phase 4 Operations

Clive Loader examines the challenges for the Royal Air Force in non-warfighting operations and how it can make a key contribution to rebuilding nations and to promoting their return to the international community.

Collaboration in European Defence Acquisition: Improved Outcomes

Nazzareno Cardinali looks at the challenges of achieving significantly improved collaborative acquisition outcomes.

The Challenge of Integrating UAVs into Mixed User Airspace

Neil Taylor examines the major issues of airspace use and safety raised by the increasing employment of UAVs.

DPA Forward: Making an Impact on the Delivery of Projects

Peter Spencer describes the work he has set in hand to improve delivery of projects and records his cautious optimism over progress that is beginning to take effect.

Tactical UAV Growth in the UK: An Industry Perspective

Using current unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as examples, Michael Rowe examines possible paths along which the UK Tactical UAV (TUAV) capability may develop and the implications for the tactical battlespace.

The RDS Interview - Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola

Italy’s Chief of Defence on procurement and the equipment priorities for her armed forces.

Value for Money in Defence Equipment Acquisition

Capability Based Acquisition: Creating the Environment for Change

Bob Barton gives a personal view from an industrial perspective of what needs to be changed if we are to move to acquisition based on the capability required, rather than on replacing existing equipment, and how that change can be implemented.