The
Ministry of Defence has announced yet another merger of its departments. The Defence Support Group (DSG) was launched on April 1st to bring together the Army Base Repair Organisation (ABRO) with the residual, non-privatised bits of the Defence Aviation Repair Agency (DARA).
The DSG is designed to provide an in-house maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade services for the through life support of key land and air based platforms and equipment for the UK Armed Forces.
In nuLabour-speak, the DSG will be one of the MoD's "Trading Funds" - this sounds more like some City financial enterprise than the Armed Forces' engineering repair and maintenance group. Indeed, in its press release the DSG continues the commercial theme by saying that its combined "business" will have an annual "turnover" of over £100million and will focus on supporting its "defence customers"; this is called an "in-house" service though "internal market" may be a closer description. Arguments about service level agreements and contractual commitments can be expected to take up a lot of time from now on.
Ministry of Defence has announced yet another merger of its departments. The Defence Support Group (DSG) was launched on April 1st to bring together the Army Base Repair Organisation (ABRO) with the residual, non-privatised bits of the Defence Aviation Repair Agency (DARA).The DSG is designed to provide an in-house maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade services for the through life support of key land and air based platforms and equipment for the UK Armed Forces.
In nuLabour-speak, the DSG will be one of the MoD's "Trading Funds" - this sounds more like some City financial enterprise than the Armed Forces' engineering repair and maintenance group. Indeed, in its press release the DSG continues the commercial theme by saying that its combined "business" will have an annual "turnover" of over £100million and will focus on supporting its "defence customers"; this is called an "in-house" service though "internal market" may be a closer description. Arguments about service level agreements and contractual commitments can be expected to take up a lot of time from now on.
Link> MoD: Defence Support Group
Link> BBC: Dara 'sleaze' argument breaks out
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