£13.9bn Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) (part of the Ministry of Defence) spend on buying and supporting military equipment, 2013-14 |
| £1.3bn DE&S's forecast operating costs in 2013-14 to achieve the Department's plan for buying and supporting military equipment (known as the Equipment Plan) |
| £33m cost of the Materiel Strategy, until the government-owned, contractor-operated (GoCo) halted |
£162.9 billion | value of the 10-year Plan for buying and supporting military equipment |
May 2011 | Department launches the Materiel Strategy, a programme to improve DE&S's skills and capabilities |
December 2013 | Department's preferred organisational structure to meet the Materiel Strategy's aims (the GoCo) is halted; and a decision taken to change DE&S into a bespoke trading entity instead |
April 2014 | DE&S set up as a bespoke trading entity |
April 2017 | Department's target date for DE&S becoming the leading defence acquisition organisation |