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Archives by date > 2013 > September > 22nd

Gray’s Anatomy of Defense Buys: Don’t Just Sign and Wait

Sep 22, 2013 15:54 UTC

HMS Astute & Type 45

HMS Astute &
HMS Dauntless

On May 20/13, the UK MoD’s Chief of Defence Materiel Bernard Gray talked about the Astute program experience during a Public Accounts Committee hearing concerning carrier strike. Actually, he talked about the concept of buyer oversight vs. contractor-directed programs in a much more general sense.

“Bernard Gray: …While I appreciate that the defence industry will quite often say that it wishes to be left alone, thank you very much, my experience is that that is not on the whole a good idea…”

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