Specialist Vehicles
Specialist Vehicles The Capability Specialist Vehicles will be more fightable, survivable, lethal, and have a greater find capability than the obsolescent legacy Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) fleet that is overmatched by even the most likely threat. Specialist Vehicles will contribute to a combined arms capability of modern, medium-weight, strategically deployable, tracked vehicles. As part of the Department's 2011 Planning Round, the requirement for Medium Armour has been removed from the Specialist Vehicles Programme. |
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Overview of Cost, Time and Performance | ||||||
| Approved | Forecast/Actual | Variation | IY Variation | ||
Cost of Assessment Phase | £109m | £130m | +£21m | - | ||
Cost of Demonstration and Manufacture Phase | £1,394m | £1,394m | - | - | ||
Duration of Assessment Phase | - | Continuous | - | - | ||
In-Service Date | - | - | - | - | ||
In-year Cost and Time Variation Detail | ||||||
Main Gate 1 - Demonstration Recce Block 1 only: As part of the Main Gate 1 Approval, the Office of Government Commerce conducted a Gateway Review in September 2009, followed by a full Major Projects Review Group examination, which confirmed that Specialist Vehicles was in a position to proceed to its planned Demonstration phase with General Dynamics UK as the Prime contractor. The Strategic Defence and Security Review and the Department's 2011 Planning Round removed the Medium Armour and Manoeuvre Support elements and recast the delivery profile to aspire to the emerging Army restructuring under Strategic Defence and Security Review (Five Multi-Role Brigades). Final size and shape of the Specialist Vehicles fleet will not be set until Main Gate 2. | An Information Note and a Review Note are currently planned later in 2011 in order to capture the programme changes arising from the Department's Planning Round 2011 and the Strategic Defence and Security Review. Further Approvals: It should be noted that Specialist Vehicles does not have a single Main-Gate Approval. The size of the programme, together with previous lessons learned in other programmes, determined that an approach of two Main Gates (one for demonstration and one for manufacture) with further sub Main-Gates, used for further variants. | |||||
Risk Assessment against Defence Lines of Development
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