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Final Assessment Begins For Potential U.K. Defense Acquisition Overhaul

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, April 26th, 2013

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Defense Secretary Philip Hammond told Parliament yesterday that a year-long assessment phase has begun that is expected to lead to reform of the Ministry of Defense’s (MoD) equipment and support management. The assessment will develop and analyze data that is expected to allow MoD to decide between two options: a private-sector led, government-owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) model, and a restructured, fully-funded version of DE&S that stays in the public sector and would be known as DE&S+. Defense acquisition reform is part…

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