Defence Equipment and Support
Defence Equipment and Support is a trading entity and joint-defence organisation within the UK Ministry of Defence. It began operating on 2 April 2007 following the merger of the MoD's Defence Procurement Agency and the Defence Logistics Organisation, under the Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support.
The organisation had a civilian and military workforce of around 29,000, in the UK and abroad. DE&S operates as a single Top Level Budget. As of 2008 the DE&S workforce was around 24,500, further reducing under the 'PACE' business improvement programme to around 21,000 by 2012. Of this, around 8,000 posts have been housed at Abbey Wood since 2012.
History
Defence Equipment and Support was established on 2 April 2007. DE&S is overseen by the Minister of State for Defence Procurement. The organisation supports Joint Forces Command and the subsidiary individual armed services thorough Headquarters Air Command, Army Headquarters and Navy Command,Strategic governance
Defence Equipment and Support Board
Includes:| Title | Name | Date |
| Chairman and Non-Executive Director | Paul Skinner | 2015-2019 |
| MOD Permanent Secretary | Stephen Lovegrove | 2015- |
| Chief Executive Officer | Sir Simon Bollom | 2018- |
| Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff | Lt Gen Mark Poffley OBE | 2015- |
| Non-Executive Director | James Dorrian | 2015- |
| Non-Executive Director | Paul Smith | 2015- |
| Non-Executive Director | Andrew Wolstenholme OBE | 2015- |
Mark Russell will become chairman in November 2019.
The Board provides strategic governance for DE&S and a robust forum for independent, non-executive support and constructive challenge to the Chief
Executive and the Executive Committee. The DE&S Board delegates some activities to sub-committees of the Board, namely the Audit, Remuneration,
Programme Review and Nomination Committees. The Chairman ensures that the Board receives feedback on these sub-Committees and that it is able to
consider their recommendations.
Direction and oversight
Executive Committee Defence Equipment and Support
Includes:| Title | Name | Date |
| Chief Executive Officer | Sir Simon Bollom | 2018- |
| CoM | Vice-Admiral Simon Lister CB OBE | 2013–2017 * see notes |
| CoM | Vice-Admiral Simon Lister CB OBE | 2017 * |
| CoM | Sir Simon Bollom | 2017- |
| CoM | Lieutenant-General, Paul Jaques CBE | 2015- |
| CoM | Air-Marshal Julian Young CB OBE RAF | 2015- |
| CoM | Pete Worrall CB OBE | 2015- |
| DG Resources | Michael Bradley | 2015- |
| DG Commercial | Nick Elliott | 2015- |
DE&S is led on a day-to-day basis by the Executive Committee, which consists of the Chief Executive Officer, Director General Resources as Chief Finance
Officer, the Director General Commercial and six Chiefs of Materiel who lead the delivery of the programme of work in their respective domains.
Note:Vice-Admiral, Lister is currently on a sabbatical from his Royal Navy Career to be Managing Director of the Aircraft Carrier Alliance.
Sub Committees
Includes: The following subordinate Committees provide specialised support to the Executive Committee.| Name |
| Business Case Review Committee |
| Innovation & Prosperity Committee |
| People Committee |
| Performance Committee |
| Safety Committee |
| Security Committee |
| Transformation Committee |
Administration of (DE&S) and Senior Leadership
The organisation is under the leadership of a civilian Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support since 2015. After the restructuring in 2011 there are four three-star posts under the Chief of Defence Materiel. These are the positions of Chief of Materiel, a Royal Navy Vice Admiral, and Chief of Materiel, a British Army Lieutenant General, Chief of Materiel, a Royal Air Force Air Marshal and Chief of Materiel.Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support
Chiefs of Materiel for Air/Army/Navy/Joint-Enablers
The Chiefs of Materiel are responsible for managing key relationships with the Capability Sponsor and User. They work at the strategic level to make sure that the operational readiness and sustainability needs of the User are met.The CofMs ensure an ethos of support to operations is in place to the User, throughout all DE&S activity.
Chief of Materiel (Fleet)/Chief of Fleet Support
| Name | Date held |
| Vice Admiral Trevor Soar | Jan 2007 - 2009 |
| Vice Admiral Andrew Mathews | 2009–2013 |
| Vice Admiral Simon Lister | 2013–2017 |
Chief of Materiel (Submarines)
| Name | Date held |
| Vice Admiral Sir Simon Lister | 2017 - 2017 |
Directorate of Submarine Acquisitions
Directorate of Submarines Support
Chief of Materiel (Ships)
| Name | Date held |
| Sir Simon Bollom | 2017 - 2018 |
| Vice Admiral Christopher Gardner | 2019 - Present |
Directorate of Ships Support
Directorate of Ships Acquisition
Chief of Materiel (Land)
| Name | Date held |
| Lieutenant General Dick Applegate | 16 January 2007 to 1 September 2009 |
| Lieutenant General Sir Gary Coward | 1 September 2009 to May 2012 |
| Lieutenant General Christopher Deverell | May 2012 to 8 March 2016 |
| Lieutenant General Paul Jaques | 8 March 2016 - 7 December 2019 |
Directorate of Land Equipment
Directorate of Weapons
Chief of Materiel (Air)
Directorate of Air Support
Directorate of Combat Air
Chief of Materiel (Joint Enablers)
| Name | Date held |
| Dr Andrew Tyler | 1 May 2011 to 21 June 2011 |
| Trevor Woolley | 1 June 2011 |
| Peter Worrall | October 2013 – |
| Adrian Baguley | July 2019 – Present |
Directorate of Helicopters
Submarine Delivery Agency
The Submarine Delivery Agency is actually an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence, formed in 2018.Functions
Directorate-General (Commercial)
Commercial Improvements
Commercial Operations
| Name | Date held |
| Alan Peter | 2017 - |
| Phil Tozer | 2017 - |
Commercial Capability
Support
Information Technology
Directorate-General (Resources)
| Name | Date held |
| Michael Bradley | 2016-2018 |
| David Johnson | 2019-Present |
Finance
| Name | Date held |
| David Johnson | 2017 - 2019 |
| Ann Underwood | 2017 - 2019 |
Transformation
Corporate Function Manager
Directorate Human Resources
| Name | Date held |
| Don Cuthbert | 2016 |
| Daniel Griffiths | 2019-Present |
Corporate Function Manager
Directorate Strategy & Change
| Name | Date held |
| Barry Burton | 2019-Present |
International Relations Group
Major projects
DE&S manages a variety of defence procurement and support projects inherited from the DLO and DPA for all three services. Examples of current and future procurement projects include:Vessels
- Type 45 destroyer class.
- submarine class.
- landing platform dock class.
- landing ship dock class.
- class.
- Type 26 frigate warship class.
- Type 31 frigate class
- Solid Support Ship
- submarine class.
- Replacement class for the Vanguard class
Aircraft
- Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft.
- F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fighter aircraft.
- A400M transport aircraft.
- C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft.
- Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft
- Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft /Airbus A330 MRTT aerial refueling tanker.
- Apache MkI attack helicopter.
- Merlin HC3 support and Merlin HM1 anti-submarine warfare helicopters.
- Hawk 128 advanced jet trainer.
- Watchkeeper Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
- Sentinel R1
- Beechcraft Shadow R1
- Future Offensive Air System.
- Airseeker.
- Protector UAV.
- Air Support to Defence Operational Training.
Vehicles
- Mastiff Cougar Protected Patrol Vehicle.
- Ajax
- Panther Command and Liaison Vehicle.
- Viking armoured personnel carrier.
- Mechanised Infantry Vehicle
- Multi Role Vehicle-Protected
Munitions
- AIM-132 ASRAAM.
- Meteor air-to-air missile.
- Storm Shadow cruise missile.
- Brimstone air-launched anti-tank guided missile.
- FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank guided missile.
- Main Battle Tank and Light Armour Weapon anti-tank missile.
- Defence general munitions.
- SPEAR, Selective Precision Effects At Range munitions, see for example, SPEAR 3
Other
- Future Integrated Soldier Technology modular infantry equipment system.
- Bowman tactical communications system.
- Skynet 5 strategic communications satellite system.
- Light weapons, photography and batteries
Main locations
- MoD Abbey Wood - Head Office
- DM Beith - Defence Munitions
- MoD Bicester - Logistics
- HMNB Clyde - Fleet Support and Defence Munitions
- HMNB Devonport - Fleet Support and Defence Munitions
- DM Kineton - Defence Munitions
- DM Longtown - Defence Munitions
- Ministry of Defence, London - Policy
- RAF Northolt - British Forces Post Office
- HMNB Portsmouth and DM Gosport - Fleet Support and Defence Munitions
- Rosyth Dockyard - Fleet Support and Defence Munitions
- RAF Waddington - ISTAR Support
- Yeovil - Helicopter Support