Hercules Protection
The DPA Accounts for 2004/2005 show a contrsuctuve loss of £1.791M for "cancellation of a classified programme on C130J". Presumably this was linked to some form of defensive aids and this was the money already spent or committed, with the savings being much higher. The point is, of course, that somebody in Customer 1 (the ECC) had to have agreed such a cancellation - the DPA does not operate alone, and if it was part of the defensive aids the cancellation took place in full knowledge of what was already happening in Iraq and with UK troops already in Afghanistan. Still the RAF and other services did, as I understand it, find the money, indeed rather a lot of it, for a new admin system!
I wonder where JPA fits in the "fitness for purpose" and "duty of care" considerations!
JB