Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) 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.[1]
DE&S initially had a civilian and military workforce of around 29,000 (77 per cent civilian and 23 per cent military), in the UK and abroad. The organisation 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 MoD Abbey Wood since 2012.[2]
History
Defence Equipment and Support was established on 2 April 2007. It 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:[1]
Mark Russell was to become chairman in November 2019.[3]
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.[1]
Direction and oversight
Executive Committee Defence Equipment and Support
Includes:[4]
| Title |
Name |
Date
|
| Chief Executive Officer (DE&S) |
Sir Simon Bollom |
2018 –
|
| CoM (Fleet) |
Vice-Admiral Simon Lister CB OBE |
2013 – 2017 * see notes
|
| CoM (Submarines) |
Vice-Admiral Simon Lister CB OBE |
2017 * see notes
|
| DG (Ships) |
Vice Admiral Christopher Gardner |
2019 –
|
| DG (Land) |
Chris Bushell |
2020 –
|
| DG (Air) |
Vice-Admiral Richard Thompson |
2020 –
|
| DG (Strategic Enablers) |
Adrian Baguley |
2018 –
|
| DG Commercial |
Morag Stuart |
2020 –
|
| DG Resources |
David Johnson |
2019 –
|
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.[1]
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.[1]
| 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 has been 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 (Fleet), a Royal Navy Vice Admiral, and Chief of Materiel (Land), a British Army Lieutenant General (who also holds the appointment of Quartermaster-General to the Forces), Chief of Materiel (Air), a Royal Air Force Air Marshal, and Chief of Materiel (Joint Enablers). The latest DE&S organisation chart indicates that the various Chief of Materiels have been re-titled as 'Director General'.[5]
Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support
Director General for Air/Army/Navy/Strategic Enablers/Commercial/Resources
The Chiefs of Materiel (CofMs), now Director Generals (DGs), 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.[11]
The DGs ensure an ethos of support to operations is in place to the User, throughout all DE&S activity.
Chief of Fleet Support
Director General (Ships)
Directorate of Ships Support
Director Ship Support
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Neal Lawson[11]
|
2017 – 2020
|
| Russell Brown [19]
|
2020 -
|
Directorate of Ships Acquisition
Director Ship Acquisition
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Henry Parker[11]
|
2017 –
|
Chief of Materiel (Submarines)
This group now is part of the Submarine Delivery Agency.[20]
Chief Executive
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Ian Booth[11]
|
2017 –
|
Chief of Materiel (Submarines), post renamed as Chief Executive Submarine Delivery Agency
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Vice Admiral Sir Simon Lister[11]
|
2017 – 2017
|
Directorate of Submarine Acquisitions
Director Submarine Acquisition
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Rear-Admiral Paul Methven[11]
|
2017 –
|
Directorate of Submarines Support
Chief Strategic Systems Executive & Director Submarines Support
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Rear-Admiral Keith Beckett[11]
|
2017 –
|
Director General (Land)
Directorate of Land Equipment
Director Land Equipment
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Major-General Robert Talbot Rice[11]
|
2017 – 2017
|
| Major-General Colin McClean[26]
|
2017 – 2019
|
| Major-General Daniel Crook[27]
|
2019 – present
|
Directorate of Weapons
Director Weapons
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Richard Smart[11]
|
2017 – 2020
|
| Ed Cutts [19]
|
2020 -
|
Director General (Air)
Directorate of Air Support
Director Air Support
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Adrian Baguley[11]
|
2017 –
|
| Richard Murray[11]
|
2019 –
|
Directorate of Combat Air
Director Combat Air
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Air-Vice-Marshal Keith Bethell[11]
|
2017 –
|
Director General Strategic Enablers
Director General (Strategic Enablers=)
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Dr Andrew Tyler
|
1 May 2011 – 21 June 2011
|
| Trevor Woolley
|
1 June 2011
|
| Peter Worrall[11]
|
October 2013 –
|
| Adrian Baguley[11][19]
|
July 2019 – present
|
Directorate of Intelligence, Surveillance, Target, Acquisition & Reconnaissance
Director ISTAR
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Dr Simon Dakin[19]
|
2020 –
|
Directorate of Engineering & Safety
Director Engineering & Safety
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Stephen Wilcock [19]
|
2020 – present
|
Directorate of Digital Information
Director Chief Digital Information Officer (CIO)
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Nigel Shaw[19]
|
2020 –
|
Directorate of Programmes & Change
Director Programmes & Change
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Simon Hughes[19]
|
2020 –
|
Directorate of Helicopters
Director Helicopters
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Air-Vice-Marshal Graham Russell[11][19]
|
2017 –
|
Directorate of Support
Director Support
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Steve Glass[19]>
|
2020 –
|
Directorate-General (Commercial)
Director-General, Commercial
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Nick Elliot[11]
|
2015 - 2020
|
| Morag Stuart [19]
|
2020 -
|
Commercial Operations
Director DE&S Commercial Operations
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Alan Peter[11]
|
2017 –
|
| Phil Tozer[11][19]
|
2017 –
|
Commercial Capability
Director Commercial Capability
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Mike Greatwich[11]
|
2017 –
|
Commercial Improvements
Director Commercial Improvements
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Morag Stuart[11]
|
2017 – 2020
|
| Graham Hyndman [19]
|
2020 -
|
Directorate-General (Resources)
Director-General, Resources
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Michael Bradley[11]
|
2016 – 2018
|
| David Johnson[11]
|
2019 – present
|
Financial Planning & Analysis
Director Financial Planning & Analysis
| Name
|
Date held
|
| David Johnson[11]
|
2017 - 2019
|
| Ann Underwood[11][19]
|
2017 –
|
Directorate Human Resources
Director Human Resources
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Don Cuthbert[11]
|
2016
|
| Daniel Griffiths[11]
|
2019 – present
|
Deputy Director HR Head of Function - HR
Deputy Director HR Head of Function - HR
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Katie Sloggett[19]
|
2020 – present
|
HR Operations
Head of HR Operations
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Scott Murray[19]
|
2020 – present
|
Performance & Reward
Head of Performance & Reward
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Nick Jackson, interim[19]
|
2020 – present
|
Talent & Organisation Development
Head of Talent & Organisation Development
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Amanda Lammonby[19]
|
2020 – present
|
HR (Strategic Enablers)
Head of HR (Strategic Enablers)
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Ruth Moesby[19]
|
2020 – present
|
HR (Land)
Head of HR (Land)
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Maureen Doherty[19]
|
2020 – present
|
HR (Air & Ships)
Head of HR (Air & Ships)
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Rachel Tothill[19]
|
2020 – present
|
HR (Military Human Resources & Commanding Officer)
Head of HR (Military Human Resources & Commanding Officer)
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Captain Nicholas Dodd[19]
|
2020 – present
|
Directorate Strategy & Change
Director Strategy & Change
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Barry Burton[11]
|
2019 - 2020
|
| Krishna Dhanak[19]
|
2020 -
|
International Relations Group
International Relations Group
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Valerie Evans[11][19]
|
2019 – present
|
Corporate Communications
Corporate Communications
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Dawn Cunningham-Martin[19]
|
2020 – present
|
COVID-19 Operations Cell
COVID-19 Operations Cell
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Air Commodore Rob Woods[19]
|
2020 – present
|
Corporate Operations & Governance
Corporate Operations & Governance
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Unknown[19]
|
2020 – present
|
DE&S Policy Secretariat
DE&S Policy Secretariat
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Unknown[19]
|
2020 – present
|
Principal Security Advisor
Principal Security Advisor
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Unknown[19]
|
2020 – present
|
Head of Function Corporate Services Group
Head of Function Corporate Services Group
| Name
|
Date held
|
| Unknown[19]
|
2020 – present
|
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
Aircraft
Vehicles
Munitions
Other
Main locations
As of 2016 the main locations (with staff numbers) were:[31]
Responsibility for 'Logistics, Commodities and Services' (including storage and delivery of non-weaponry equipment, such as food and clothing, to soldiers)[32] was contracted out to the private sector in 2015 under an arrangement that included the transfer of 1,100 staff and construction of a new 'Defence Fulfilment Centre' at MoD Donnington.[31]
