Cut massive swathes of admin & bureacracy out of the MoD in all areas
Contractorise even more functions but streamline the bidding process
It's been done; The project managers who get vilified in the press and elsewhere for equipment delays do their own recruiting, promoting of staff, special leave and training authorisation and welfare follow-up thereby saving the taxpayer the cost of, mostly, junior grade staff. The pay admin element is contracted out to PPPA. Streamlining of commercial functions is only possible when Treasury and EU say so.
Must be some more Airbases that can close
Kinloss? Plenty of real estate at Waddington to accomodate just 9 MRA4s.
Leuchars/Lossie? Shut one or the other, scrap the GR4 (F3s are gone soon anyway) and embrace the future that is Typhoon. Walk away from JCA/JSF (which is it?) and have a maritime version of Typhoon instead. Close both stations and have carriers instead. One can moor in the Moray Firth while the other goes on a world cruise, then they swap over.
If technical training is to be centralised do it at an existing site rather than move it to somewhere the current instructor cadre don't want to go, that is miles from the motorway and isn't in a central location.
That's my two penn'orth. SWs to you all.
R