“It is over 3 years since the MoD woke up to the problems which it had been trying to ignore and yet there is still no solution on the horizon”.
I’m not sure the MoD has entirely woken up, as there have been no obvious changes to personnel, recruitment and project resourcing policies; which are some of the main underlying factors. However, the new CDP has refreshingly different views to that of his predecessor on this score, which should reduce the chances of it happening again in the future. Bear in mind the main players are now long gone, and their successors are probably struggling manfully to find a fix, but have other more pressing problems.