Definitions provided here reflect the usage in this report, and not necessarily usage in the Ministry of Defence or elsewhere.
Second Permanent Under Secretary | |
Chief of Defence Materiel | |
Chief of the Defence Staff | |
The central budgetary organisation, including Head Office, corporate service agencies, Intelligence, MOD police and guards, the Defence Academy and the Surgeon General's area. | |
The business plan, defining outputs, performance and controls for the Command TLB. | |
Collective noun for the military TLBs: Fleet Command, Land Command, Air Command, and Joint Forces Command. Replaces the collective noun 'Front Line Command', which covered the Services and dated from a time when there were also separate Principal Personnel Officer TLBs | |
Chief Scientific Advisor | |
Chief of Joint Operations | |
Defence Business Services - see Part 12 | |
Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre | |
Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff - a military 3 star appointment in Head Office | |
See MOD | |
Director General - a civil servant 3 star appointment | |
Defence Infrastructure Organisation - see Part 12 | |
Director Special Forces | |
The finance director post in each of the TLBs. It is a re-titling of the Command Secretary post to emphasise that their primary responsibility is their financial duties - see Part 8. | |
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory | |
A resource informed process by which the future force is designed, tested and developed to meet policy requirements, strategic trends, emerging threats, and technological and operational opportunities effectively and effciently. | |
Force Elements, are the building blocks of trained, equipped capable people, typically company, battery or squadron sub-units, that make up the Force Structure. (Source: Acquisition Operating Framework (AOF) |