• Industry was keen to emphasise the potential for alternative acquisition processes that de-risked the individual technological leaps required (e.g., incremental / evolutionary / spiral acquisition). Industry was comfortable with capabilities designed for later upgrades and the use of "technological insertion" (i.e., modular designs).
• As regards MoD processes, the Review team heard consistently negative feedback about the MoD bidding processes. The key issues raised were that the process itself was far too long and as a result too expensive.