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London Mil
To clarify, as far as the military are concerned, D&D will continue to call themselves D&D when on landline/telephone etc, even after moving to Swanwick. Part of the rationale behind name changes (ie the introduction of the term A&FC) is so that the projects chaps don't get confused. You could just imagine someone talking about a problem in D&D when the problem was actually in an empty room some 100 miles down the road. Hence, A&FC is set in tablets of stone as far as contracts are concerned. How the customer chooses to operate within the boudaries of the solution (the Contract), is a matter for the customer.
You're quite correct in that the customer chooses what they do with the kit provided (within the constraints of what the kit can do). Name will not be to prevent confusion (IMHO) as NAS, CCDS and EDDUS are all moving to Swanwick next year and although slight name changes are used to differentiate (SwEDDUS for Swanwick EDDUS as an example) theres no confusion. I could well be wrong (Because A&FC is not a project I'm involved in) but I believe HQ STC chose A&FC and thats how it'll be used in future. Standing by to be corrected by one of the project team now
BD