Originally Posted by
Saintsman
It may well have been done in-house in the days of the Nimrod, but do we still have the people capable to produce an up to date version?
Numbers are not what they used to be and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of the relevant info has been binned.
That’s probably the reason, or at least a good stab at why MoD has contracted it out. DE&S doesn’t work in isolation when delivering equipment programmes and MoD ensures teams have relevant serving SMEs embedded within the teams.
With shrinking forces means loss of capabilities, this could well be one of them.