 DPA headquarters, Bristol The Defence Procurement Agency (DPA), is an Executive Agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence responsible for the acquisition of materiel and equipment, as well as associated services, for the British armed forces. Ministry of Defence building, Filton, near Bristol, England. ...
Ministry of Defence building, Filton, near Bristol, England. ...
An Executive Agency is a British public institution that carries out some part of the executive functions of the United Kingdom government. ...
The Ministry of Defence building, Whitehall, Westminster, London The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and the headquarters of the UK military. ...
The armed forces of the United Kingdom are known as the British Armed Forces or Her Majestys Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Crown. ...
History
The Defence Procurement Agency was established on April 1, 1999, after it was announced in the Strategic Defence Review to create a reformed, specialised agency, succeeding what was then the Procurement Executive. April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ...
1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
The Strategic Defence Review (or SDR) was a policy document produced by the Labour Government that came to power in 1997. ...
The DPA is headed by the Chief Executive, Sir Peter Spencer, who also holds the title Chief of Defence Procurement. The Minister for Defence Procurement is currently Lord Drayson. Its headquarters is co-located with part of the Warship Support Agency near Bristol, England. Categories: Stub | 1782 births | 1843 deaths ...
Bristol is an English city and county and one of the two administrative centres of South West England (the other being Plymouth). ...
Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion...
Major projects The Defence Procurement Agency manage and has managed a variety of procurement projects. Examples of current and future equipment high-profile procurement projects have been based around include: The acquisition of goods or services at the best possible total cost of ownership, in the right quantity, at the right time, in the right place for the direct benefit or use of the governments, corporations, or individuals generally via, but not limited to a contract. ...
Vessels Type 45 AAW Destroyer Type 45 AAW Destroyer Britains Type 45 Destroyer is the state-of-the art future air defence destroyer program of the Royal Navy. ...
USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and manouverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft). ...
A ship class is a group of ships of a similar design. ...
BAE SYSTEMS Artist Impression When completed, the Astute class will comprise the largest nuclear-powered attack submarines of the Royal Navy. ...
USS Los Angeles A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ...
HMS Bulwark (foreground) and HMS Albion (background) The Albion class landing platform dock ships are the newest amphibious assault vessels in the Royal Navy fleet. ...
An amphibious transport dock (also called Landing Platform Dock or LPD) is a warship that embarks, transports, and lands elements of a landing force for expeditionary warfare missions. ...
These ships have been designed as replacements for the ageing Sir class vessels. ...
The United States Navy Dock Landing Ship (Navy hull classification LSD) was designed to support amphibious operations. ...
The Thales Groups design, accepted by MOD in 2003 CVF, literally Aircraft Carrier Future, but commonly called the Future Carrier is a new generation of aircraft carrier being developed for the United Kingdoms Royal Navy. ...
The Future Surface Combatant was the projected succesor to Type 22 and Type 23 frigates in service of the British Royal Navy until the programs de facto cancellation in late 2004. ...
USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga class cruiser. ...
Aircraft The Eurofighter Typhoon is a highly agile twin-engine multi-role canard-delta fighter aircraft, designed and built by a consortium of European nations formed in 1983. ...
A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for attacking other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed to attack ground targets, primarily by dropping bombs. ...
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a joint venture between the UK and USA to replace the current generation of strike fighters, particularly the Hawker Harrier and the F-16 Fighting Falcon. ...
The BAE SYSTEMS Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft is derived from the De Havilland Comet, the worlds first jet airliner. ...
A patrol bomber, or patrol aircraft, is an airplane designed to operate for long times over water in an anti-shipping or anti-submarine role. ...
The Airbus A400M (M for military) is a four engine turboprop aircraft designed by Airbus Military to meet the demand of European nations for a new military cargo aircraft. ...
A cargo aircraft, also alternately known as a transport aircraft, is an aircraft dedicated to handling transport of materials and oversized loads. ...
The C-17 Globemaster III is a strategic airlifter manufactured by Boeing IDS, used by the United States Air Force and the Royal Air Force. ...
Raytheon Production aircraft first flight The Raytheon Sentinel is under development as the RAFs ASTOR (Airborne STand-Off Radar) aircraft. ...
This long range radar antenna (approximately 40m (130ft) in diameter) rotates on a track to observe activities near the horizon. ...
The Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) will provide aerial refueling (AR) and Air Transport (AT) for the Royal Air Force using a version of the Airbus A330 MRTT. The Royal Australian Air Force announced in April 2004 that they had selected Airbus to provide tankers to a similar specification. ...
The Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) is a next generation aerial refueling tanker aircraft based on the Airbus A330_200. ...
Aerial refueling, also called in-flight refueling (IFR) or air-to-air refueling (AAR), is the practice of transferring fuel from one aircraft to another during flight. ...
A tanker is usually a vehicle carrying large amounts of liquid fuel. ...
The WAH-64 is a licence built version of the Boeing AH-64 Apache Longbow attack helicopter for the British Army. ...
A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more large horizontal rotors (propellers). ...
The RAF Merlin HC3 is a medium support helicopter of the Royal Air Force. ...
The AgustaWestland EH101 is a medium-lift helicopter originally developed as a joint venture between Westland Helicopters in the UK and Agusta in Italy for military applications but also marketed for civil use. ...
Anti-submarine warfare is a term referring to warfare directed against submarines. ...
The BAE Hawk is an advanced jet trainer manufactured by BAE Systems and used by the Royal Air Force and other countries air forces. ...
Jet aircraft are aircraft with jet engines. ...
A trainer is a training aircraft used to develop piloting, navigational or weapon-aiming skills in flight crew. ...
Shadow 200 UAV flying over Iraq. ...
BAE SYSTEMS FOAS Concept The Future Offensive Air System is the system which will replace the RAFs strike capability currently provided by the Tornado GR4. ...
Vehicles The Future Rapid Effect System (often abbreviated FRES) is a proposed family of medium weight armoured vehicles for the British Army. ...
Vehicles are non-living means of transport. ...
The Panther Command and Liaison Vehicle is a vehicle developed by the British Army. ...
East German BRDMs on parade during celebrations of the 40th anniversary of East Germany in 1989 Armoured personnel carriers (APCs) are light armoured fighting vehicles for the transport of infantry. ...
Munitions The AIM-132 Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile is a British air-to-air missile with infra-red guidance. ...
A US Navy VF-103 Jolly Rogers F-14 Tomcat fighter launchers an AIM-54 Phoenix long-range air-to-air missile. ...
This article or section should include material from Meteor missile system The MBDA Meteor is a European long range air-to-air missile with radar guidance. ...
Storm Shadow is an Anglo-French air-launched cruise missile, manufactured by MBDA and used by Britain, France, and Italy. ...
A Tomahawk cruise missile A cruise missile is a guided missile which uses a lifting wing and most often a jet propulsion system to allow sustained flight. ...
Brimstone test firing from Panavia Tornado The Brimstone missile is an advanced Anti_Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) developed by MBDA. The missile is a development of Boeings AGM-114 Hellfire is designed to meet the RAFs requirement for a long range anti-armour weapon, allowing strike aircraft to attack...
An Anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) or weapon (ATGW) is a guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles. ...
A soldier practices with the Javelin on a firing range. ...
The Main Battle Tank and Light Armour Weapon (MBT LAW) is a man-portable short range fire-and-forget anti-tank missile system. ...
Anti-tank, or simply AT, refers to any method of combating military armored fighting vehicles, notably tanks. ...
A missile (British English: miss-isle; U.S. English: missl) is, in general, a projectile—that is, something thrown or otherwise propelled. ...
Other The Future Infantry Soldier Technology - FIST, sometimes called the Future Infantry System Technology or Future Integrated Soldier Technology is a project by the British Army, which aims to enhance the infantrymens combat effectiveness in the 21st century. ...
Infantry in the First World War Infantry (or Infantrymen) are soldiers who fight primarily on foot, using personal weapons. ...
Bowman is a synonym for the word archer and common last name in the English speaking world. ...
The term communications is used in a number of disciplines: Communications, also known as communication studies is the academic discipline which studies communication. ...
Skynet 5 is a military satellite project led by the UK Ministry of Defence to provide a new generation of strategic communication services among the three branches of the UK Armed Forces, replacing the existing Skynet 4 system. ...
U.S. military MILSTAR communications satellite A communications satellite (sometimes abbreviated to comsat) is an artificial satellite stationed in space for the purposes of telecommunications or reconnaisance using radio at microwave frequencies. ...
See also The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the UK Armed Forces. ...
The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...
The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ...
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