TY - BOOK ID - 135366509 TI - Persistent Challenges in UK Defence Equipment Acquisition AU - Retter, Lucia AU - Black, James AU - Muravska, Julia AU - Williams, Ben PY - 2021 PB - Santa Monica, Calif. RAND Corporation DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135366509 AB - Equipping the Armed Forces to deliver their outputs is one of the most important, challenging and complex tasks faced by the UK Government. The National Audit Office (NAO) has been monitoring and evaluating the performance of defence acquisition programmes to identify reasons behind poor performance. The NAO requested external, independent input from RAND Europe on these matters, to help shed light on the underlying causes of equipment procurement problems and the reasons why they persist. This discussion paper, which is based on decades of RAND research on these topics, focuses on three broad drivers of cost, schedule and other performance problems often encountered in defence programs. These include: industrial and Ministry of Defence (MOD) skills and capabilities; supplier performance, incentives and contracting; and programme management, budgeting and delivery.  In addition, the paper captures some overarching, cross-cutting factors and outlines measures and initiatives that will allow the MOD to improve programme delivery. Finally, it identifies examples of measures that could help address these inefficiencies going forward. ER -