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Commitment | Future milestones
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| 1. | Undertake a Strategic Defence Review (SDR), and establish a legislative mechanism for keeping our Strategy current and aligned.
| — Prepare underpinning support for SDR (especially costing, management information, audit) by Summer 2010
— Establish an appropriate legislative mechanism for future SDRs; ideally utilising the Armed Forces Bill. Proposals to Minister by Jan 2010
| — On track. Positive progress on underpinning elements.
— On track. Proposals being developed.
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| 2. | Bring the Equipment Programme into balance
| — Begin to adjust our equipment programme to bring it into balance.
| — On track. Planning Round reduced equipment programme budget deficit; final decisions ongoing.
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| 3. | Establish a 10-year planning horizon and increase transparency
| — Agree 10-year planning horizon with HMT to support SDR
| — On track. Ministers, HMT and Cabinet Office have agreed that MoD will annually share its assessment of affordability with the HCDC.
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| | — Seek NAO agreement to auditing our assessment of affordability of the Equipment Programme
| — On track. NAO happy in principle to conduct audits (starting with SDR and are working up proposed approach)
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| 4. | Create the Defence Board Sub-Committee for Equipment (DBSCE)
| — Agree sub-committee role and composition by end September 2009
— Sub-committee in operation by end November 2009
| — Complete. Committee role agreed and the first meeting occurred on 23 November 2009.
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| 5. | Improve our costing and management of risk
| — Develop stronger approach for Cost Estimating. Assessment Phase complete by December 2009
| — AP complete. Way Forward and Funding being addressed in Planning Round.
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| | — Establish a Way Forward to improve the management of risk across the programme by May 2010
| — Way Forward being scoped.
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| 6. | Establish stronger mechanisms for initiating projects and controlling project changes
| — Develop Proposals for "Project Initiation" by March 2010
— Building on the above, develop a full Change Control Mechanism (date TBC)
| — On track. Proposals being developed.
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| 7. | Sharpen the relationship between MOD Head Office, Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) and Front Line Commands, and improve visibility of DE&S costs.
| — Produce internal Terms Of Business Agreement (TOBA) to strengthen roles and business rules by January 2010.
| — On track. TOBA going through final approval
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| | — Allocate DE&S project-related manpower costs to the Equipment Programme. Pilots to commence Apr 2010 (subject to HMT discussions)
| — On track. HMT agree in principle.
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| 8. | Improve key acquisition skills
| — Seek to partner with the private sector to improve key acquisition skills in DE&S. Assessment Phase complete by December 2009.
| — AP complete. Way Forward and Funding being addressed as part of Planning Round.
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| | — Skills audit for Capability Sponsor organisation by February 2010
| — On track. |
| | — Commercial Skills Way Forward developed by January 2010
| — On track. Way Forward developed; funding being addressed.
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