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Defence forecast: The transformation of in-service support over the next decade

September 19, 2017

Military assets and equipment are getting more complex, but for some roles they are actually becoming much simpler, while delivery and support is increasingly globalised and will continue to be so. Evan Butler-Jones, Director, Defence Product Line, Aviation & Defence Business Unit at IFS, looks at five changes set to ...

How can the military balance equipment availability with a reactive and compliant maintenance strategy & supply chain with low numbers of skilled engineers?

Military MRO: Solving the Maintenance Skills Shortage with Augmented Reality

May 30, 2017

Maintaining sophisticated military equipment across land, sea and air is a difficult enough challenge when the required resources are readily available. So how can the military balance equipment availability with a reactive and compliant maintenance strategy and supply chain when the number of skilled engineers is limited? Here, Graham Grose, ...

Review has been commissioned by the Prime Minister, will be overseen by the Defence Secretary John Healey, and headed by Lord Robertson - reporting in the first half of 2025.

Performance Based Logistics and the emerging defence ecosystem

January 11, 2017

Performance Based Logistics is an emerging global defence procurement strategy, undertaken to carry out cost-effective life-cycle product support. Defence writer Domhnall Macinnes caught up with Graham Grose, Director of the IFS Aerospace and Defense Center of Excellence, to discuss how the industry is changing through the spread of PBL. IFS is a business ...