"get a more commercially astute CDM"
Wikipedia: "Gray worked for five years in investment banking and capital markets for Bankers Trust and Chase Manhattan in London and New York."
Perhaps the MOD should go back to "a more commercially astute" General like Sir Kevin O'Donoghue? If the rumours are anything to go by, it wasn't his commercial nous which was lacking, rather it was the political in-fighting which led to the failure.