Defence Online

Interview with DE&S’ CEO Andy Start

Land March 8, 2023

Official DPRTE 23 media partner, Defence Online, recently spoke to Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) CEO, Andy Start, about his start in the role and his hopes for the upcoming highly-anticipated defence procurement event. You’ve been in your role as DE&S CEO just over six months now, what have been the ...

Celebrating three years of Poseidon

Maritime February 10, 2023

Maritime patrol aircraft searching for hostile submarines in UK waters are celebrating three years since their arrival in the UK. The first of nine Poseidon aircraft procured for the Royal Air Force (RAF) by Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) through a Foreign Military Sale with the United States arrived in the ...

Dstl tests new technology at Army Warfighting Experiment

Homeland December 19, 2022

Experts from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) have played a key role in supporting the Army Warfighting Experiment Sustain and Protect (AWE S&P) exercise at His Majesty’s Naval Base Portsmouth (HMNBP). Dstl scientists from a wide range of specialisms including sensing, platform survivability, human science, autonomy and power deployed to ...

Key MOD strategic asset to merge into MOD’s specialist procurement arm

Homeland November 22, 2022

The Defence Electronics and Components Agency (DECA) will merge into Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S), the procurement arm of the MOD, from 1 April 2023. DECA is currently a MOD Executive Agency, delivering electronics and components, general engineering support capabilities, and maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade services across a range of defence ...