More cuts?
Maybe it's just the Government's way of celebrating the 60th anniversary of the despicable 1957 Defence White Paper?
On GEMS, I once wrote a paper proposing that the planned VC10 JTIDS should use the aircraft's EGI system rather than the standalone GPS being proposed by the system designers. That would have saved £M, but all I received was a TY&PO letter - then years later the JTIDS and EGI were indeed linked much as I'd suggested...