Not knocking work of the chaps and chappesses on the factory floor. Everyone I know saw this coming from a mile away when DARA was first established.
It was everyone's sense from the get-go that the DARA head shed never wanted to be at St Athan, didn't want St Athan as part of the system despite it being the (biggest aircraft engineering facility in the MoD) and, perhaps more importantly, the gaggle of retired Wg Cdrs and Gp Capts they put in charge didn't have a Scooby Doo about how to run the place as a business.