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Radical<br />

rethink on<br />

management<br />

of sites<br />

where DE&S<br />

staff work<br />

New organisation to focus on<br />

offices, naval bases, barracks,<br />

depots, training areas and<br />

ranges in the UK and overseas<br />

“However, key to our success<br />

will be getting things right in four<br />

areas; embedding the right business<br />

processes and supporting these with<br />

robust information systems to deliver<br />

our outputs; getting the appropriate<br />

organisational structure and governance;<br />

appropriate business processes; and<br />

exhibiting the right behaviours leading<br />

to trust between the organisation and its<br />

users.”<br />

Mr olney added that<br />

this will enable Dio<br />

to take a defence-wide<br />

view in strategically<br />

managing the military<br />

estate – both in the<br />

balance of investment<br />

and enabling military<br />

capability. it centralises<br />

MoD management of<br />

infrastructure, reduced<br />

costs, improves estate<br />

use and drives further<br />

rationalisation.<br />

A new strategic<br />

Asset Management<br />

team will translate<br />

defence infrastructure<br />

requirements into a<br />

strategic programme<br />

to deliver what the<br />

Armed Forces require to<br />

continue defending the<br />

uK. Crucially it will aim<br />

to improve the utilisation<br />

of the estate.<br />

A lot of work has gone<br />

into merging all MoD<br />

infrastructure funding<br />

and posts into the new organisation.<br />

subsequent phases will transform the<br />

organisation into a new leaner structure.<br />

This is likely to reduce the number<br />

of MoD non-industrial and military<br />

posts involved in managing defence<br />

infrastructure over the next three years.<br />

The transformation strategy should<br />

provide better value for money by using<br />

Under revamped management: Oak<br />

Building at Abbey Wood<br />

defence reform<br />

The ranges at Lulworth in<br />

Dorset provide gunnery ranges<br />

for crews operating armoured<br />

fighting vehicles to train. It also<br />

supports training activities for<br />

many other UK military units<br />

resources differently. For example,<br />

the next generation estate Contracts<br />

programme will develop regional<br />

frameworks for MoD construction<br />

projects. And defence infrastructure<br />

staff have already been working on<br />

rationalising ‘soft’ facilities management<br />

(FM) contracts, for support services<br />

such as cleaning and catering. This<br />

was the first step towards Dio taking<br />

responsibility for ‘Total FM’.<br />

As Britain re-assesses the military<br />

capability needed to keep the nation<br />

safe in the coming decades, the new<br />

organisation must focus on getting the<br />

right estate at the right quality for the<br />

right price.<br />

Andrew Manley added: “our Armed<br />

Forces deserve the best we can give them.<br />

There is a lot of hard work ahead, but<br />

Dio will help to ensure that we deliver an<br />

affordable and sustainable military estate<br />

which will help our military personnel to<br />

do the difficult jobs we ask them to do.”<br />

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