desider - Issue 37 - June 2011 PDF

12 news
A nuMBeR of
military testing
facilities across the
uK which the MoD
no longer needs are
to be closed to save
money.
The facilities,
including the bridge test
site at Christchurch and
Alverstoke’s pressure
test facility, have been
used for research and
supported by the MoD.
But demand for their use
has been declining.
Demolition work at
some of the sites has already
begun.
They are among a
number of capabilities which
were protected under the split
of the Defence evaluation and
Research Agency into qinetiq
and Dstl in 2001. qinetiq ran them
on a commercial basis with MoD
support, which has increased to
around £9 million per year.
other sites to go include a model
helicopter rotor rig at Farnborough
and Rosyth’s submarine structures test
facility.
Paul Jenkins, Commercial Deputy
Head at De&s Weapons, and Tim
Pinchen from the Defence infrastructure
organisation, are leading the way for
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Christchurch leads way
in test site closures
the MoD along with stakeholders. The
qinetiq team is led by Rick Hughes, the
company’s uK head of contracts.
Proposals for the project to achieve
run-down, closure or transfer back to the
MoD of the facilities was approved last
october and qinetiq has already begun
the programme, which will take up to
Demolition work on Christchurch’s bridge test
site begins, above left, and is completed, right
four years, with the majority of closures
achieved in the first two years.
Mary shoobridge, Head of
Commercial at De&s Weapons, said:
“This programme shows how MoD and
industry must, and can, work together to
eliminate unnecessary cost and deliver
maximum value for money.”
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