UK Defence Forum

Its built in to the DNA of all civil servants to never actually ever make any decision as if it ever goes wrong they might be held accountable.

26th May Dstl have contracted with BAE for the £350 million ASTRID unproven systems to provide analysis on critical strategy, policy and investment challenges to demonstrate best value or offer the most efficient or practical solution, another brick in the wall for them to claim any decision made was not their responsibility.

As with any new system claims are made how they are two to three times or more efficient than the old system so think it only right that ASTRID should result in non-technical civil servants payroll reduced by £1 billion

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dstl ... tems-corda

Please in future do not lump all Civil Servant into one box!! If you are levelling criticism at the Civil Service for not want to make decision that may effect their careers, aim it at the SENIOR CIVIL SERVICE, aka the Mandarins at the top who are all looking towards their Knighthoods, getting a cushy consulting job in industry and joining the House of Lords, not the hard working underpaid workers who try to stop everything from falling apart, at least from my experience in the MoD.

Lord Jim wrote:Please in future do not lump all Civil Servant into one box!! If you are levelling criticism at the Civil Service for not want to make decision that may effect their careers, aim it at the SENIOR CIVIL SERVICE, aka the Mandarins at the top who are all looking towards their Knighthoods, getting a cushy consulting job in industry and joining the House of Lords, not the hard working underpaid workers who try to stop everything from falling apart, at least from my experience in the MoD.

Hear hear.

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This £350 mln deal (and this thread) had somehow passed me by.

So BAE will produce "This research [that] can also be re-purposed and shared across other areas within government to solve similar challenges (subject to Intellectual Property rights), improving efficiency across the whole UK government."

Reusability is not a bad (nor a new) idea. But ever heard of "The goat guarding the cabbage patch"

"The contract will operate across five areas: strategy, policy and enterprise; capability and investment for platform and system level capabilities within current and future force structures; organisational structures, including back-office support, systems and processes; enabling services including modelling and data collection; and horizon scanning."
... sounds like every idea from BAE will be worth buying in the future. But time will tell.