This briefing by Chris Stevens from MBDA highlights the UK approach to sovereignty with regard to its weapons enterprise. It was presented at the Williams Foundation Seminar in Canberra, Australia, April 11, 2019

1. The UK Weapons Portfolio
Successfully providing Freedom of Action and Operational
Advantage”
Chris Stevens
UK SBD - Head of Air Domain

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The UK Complex Weapons Community
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Supply Chain
Partners
Weapons Evaluation
& Capability Assurance
(WECA)
Weapons
Operating
Centre (WOC)
Joint
Portfolio
Management
Supply Chain
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How did it come about?
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Defence Industrial Strategy 2005
Retain the capability within UK industry to design, develop, assemble
and upgrade Complex Weapons ensuring Operational Advantage and
Freedom of Action
Needed a solution which would:
• Deliver CW military capability for UK Armed Forces
• Provide savings to the UK MOD and UK taxpayer
• Deliver flexibility and agility against changing requirements
• Deliver Freedom of Action and Operational Advantage for the UK
• Secure high tech UK jobs in the CW Sector
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Routemap
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Common Objectives
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MOD require:
• Current & future Military
Capability
• Operational Advantage
• Freedom of Action
• Value for Money
MBDA desires:
• Sustainable & profitable
business
• To be supplier of choice
to MoD for Complex
Weapons
Jointly achieved by:
• Adopting a partnering relationship and a collaborative approach to
the long-term delivery of UK CW Military Capability
• Working together to increase export of UK developed weapons to
provide benefit to both parties
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Problem and solution summary
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Budget
Military Capability
Sovereignty (Freedom of Action)
• Unstable and unaffordable programme
• Stable and affordable programme
Pre and Post Portfolio:
• Legacy of capability overlaps and gaps based on
platform-centric stovepipe procurement
• Fewer capability overlaps and gaps, families of
weapons
• Low degree of sovereignty based on open
competition and MOTS procurement
• High degree of sovereignty based on single-
source procurement from UK supplier base
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Commonality, Modularity, Re-use
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Greater capability coverage and flexibility delivered through a long-term vision towards common
and modular CW families
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Commonality, Modularity, Re-use Example
CAMM
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Commonality, Modularity, Re-use
CAMM Family
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ASRAAM
Sea CEPTOR
Land CEPTOR

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The VfM Argument
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2010 Deloitte Analysis
Key Principle: procuring Complex Weapons through a portfolio approach with MBDA delivers better Value for
Money than procurement of equivalent capability through Open Competition
2015 ‘Sector Investment Appraisal’
reconfirmed Greater than £1Bn better VfM
than Open Competition (10-Years from 2015)
“The (PMA) arrangement presents a £1.2bn
cost-capability net benefit over competitive
procurement within 10 years” [Deloitte]
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Benefit Categories
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Delivering Capability
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Air Domain Leading the way
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