Issue 9 Jan 2009.indd - Ministry of Defence

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ENGINEERS REPAIRING
and maintaining kit on the
front line are to benefit from
field machine shops which
will be supplied later this
year
Forty-four will be
delivered to Royal Marines,
Royal Electrical and
Mechanical Engineers
and RAF mechanical and
electrical staff.
Each unit is based on a
standard 20ft ISO container
and will be deployed wherever
engineering support is
needed.
The Deployable Machine
Shop (DMS) will be supplied
by Marshall SV of Cambridge
in a deal with DE&S’
Courses taking
on a more
academic rigour
DEFENCE ACQUISITION
Learning (DaLearning) is
adapting its approach to
training to make its courses
of greater use to all MOD
staff.
DaLearning – part of
the Defence College of
Management and Technology
– is improving the academic
rigour of its courses and
offering delegates the
opportunity to achieve
professionally recognised
qualifi cations.
For example the system
safety suite of courses has
received recognition from the
University of York. Successful
students now receive credits
towards the relevant modular
Masters degree run by the
university.
DCMT’s Dr Sinnathamby
Vijayakumar said: “Delegates
prefer recognition for their
training. Many courses now
offer a nationally recognised
qualifi cation achieved by
examination and the System
Safety and Requirement
Management courses are an
excellent example of this.”
Deployable Support and Test
Equipment (DS&TE) team
worth £5.58 million for initial
contract let.
The DMS will enable
engineers to carry out front
line support milling, turning
and finishing mechanical
parts and provide space for
testing and repair of electrical
equipment and servicing of
complex equipment now in
service.
Nick Blackmore, the
team’s project manager for
DMS, said: “Considering
Single Gate Business Case
approval was only signed
in October, and given the
additional internal MOD
work required to transfer the
Latest Paveway bomb
blasts into service
HIGH PRAISE has been given to
the stakeholder community as
the latest precision guided bomb
enters service.
Paveway IV, which can hit
targets day or night and in all
weathers, will be fitted to the
Harrier GR9, Tornado GR4,
Typhoons and, eventually, the
Joint Strike Fighter.
DE&S’ Captain Howard
Holdsworth described the
weapon as hugely flexible and a
very welcome capability.
“This is the culmination of a
tremendous amount of hard work
on the part of the stakeholder
community, both in the MOD
and industry,” he said.
“We can be justifiably proud
of our achievements; Paveway IV
is a very capable weapon system
indeed.”
The highly sophisticated
weapon, provided by Raytheon
Systems UK as part of a
£400 million programme, can be
New machine shops
are based on a
standard 20ft ISO
container
project from Battlefield Utilities
team to DS&TE, the progress
on moving the delivery of this
vital new capability forward
has been phenomenal.”
Marshalls will start trials
next month and user trials
begin in April.
Peter Callaghan, chief
The precision guided bomb, Paveway IV, is pictured fi tted to a Harrier
guided on to a target through
use of Global Positioning System
satellite technology or through
laser guidance.
Raytheon Systems UK
is the design organisation
and prime contractor for the
weapon system, with Raytheon
Missile Systems (RMS), Tucson
responsible for warhead design.
General Dynamics, Dallas
is responsible for warhead
case manufacture and SEI,
executive of Marshall SV,
said: “Part of our success has
come from our understanding
of shelter based deployable
systems and the experience we
have gained over recent years
in building similar types of
solution including a powerpack
testing facility.”
SpA, Sardinia provides the
explosive fill. RMS also designs
and manufactures the weapon
guidance section and Thales
Missile Electronics, Basingstoke
is responsible for the design and
manufacture of the Fuze.
Integration contracts valued
at £100 million have been placed
with BAE Systems, Warton
and Eurofighter GmbH for
integration of the weapon onto
Tornado GR4 and Typhoon.