Bernard Gray is to appear before a specially convened Defence Select Committee on Thursday. Don't hold your breath waiting for Hodge to ask knowledgeable questions. She'll be too busy grandstanding and, as usual, will miss the blindingly obvious.
The press always say DE&S was to be replaced by the GOCO company, but I don't think Gray ever said that. If he did, he would be wholly contradicting the announcement he made in December 2011. I think this is where the HCDC should be aiming, to establish if he actually understood "his" proposal, and ask why MoD almost immediately denied he'd made the statement. I think the answer would reveal a lot of in-fighting and back-biting in Mandarin Towers and among certain retired VSOs, who quite openly tried to undermine Gray from the outset. I have a feeling his first and greatest mistake was failing to engage the person who developed the model he presented as his own, despite being told to do so by Min(AF).
Oops, got it wrong. Hodge is PAC Chair. Same principle applies though!
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