The Nimrod Review - Official Documents

2007/09 – DE&S airworthiness regime
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Chapter 13 – Cuts, Change, Dilution and Distraction (1998-2006)
By 2007, the airworthiness regime within the new DE&S had become even more Byzantine, complex and
confused. In the DE&S, responsibility for airworthiness was moved to a separate organisation within “Corporate
Services”. Today, Airworthiness policy is ‘brigaded’ alongside the other Safety and Environmental disciplines
and ‘linkage’ with the three Front Line Commands achieved through the tri-Service forum inherited from the
DLO structure. The primary interface with the single-Services at DE&S Main Board level is through the Chiefs
of Material (CoM), with CoM(Air) being a member of the AFB. It still continues to confuse many for reasons
which will be apparent from the following diagrams.
Fig. 13.6: Present MOD/ DE&S Lines of Delegation
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