DSEI 2013: Deverell says UK Land Materiel will introduce reforms early
The Land Materiel sector of the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) organisation will implement and use staff under the GOCO and DE&S+ arrangements prior to 2017.
Lt Gen Chris Deverell, the chief of materiel (land) at the DE&S procurement arm, told delegates at DSEI that if GOCO (government-owned, contractor-operator) is selected for the future of DE&S in mid-2014, then his land division will use people from the other divisions implementing GOCO as well.
Navy Materiel and the Common Resource Platform in the DE&S are scheduled to implement GOCO from the end of 2014 but the Land
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