I know people think this NEC is all b******s, and the way it’s presented certainly is, but the following is true:
1. It’s nothing new.
2. It’s mainly the Army that’s getting excited (or downcast as the cost emerges) because they think BOWMAN delivers it.
3. It doesn’t. It facilitates part of it.
4. The process for implementing, managing and sustaining it is so well established that the Def Stan hasn’t been updated for 15 years.
5. The Army’s management plan for their lead NEC implementation programme (not BOWMAN!) took 2 days to write in 2001, received 2* approval and has been contracted. Admittedly, it probably doesn’t cover all systems, only 180-odd tri-service legacy, emerging and future at last count, but difficult things like understanding dynamic data flows have been under contract since the late 90s. (Up the Jocks Harry, you’re a genius).
6. Too many senior staffs are making a mountain out of a molehill. They should stop re-inventing the wheel, get a proper job and leave it to those who have been doing it for decades. And spend the savings on what the Services need.