DE&S Equips British Army for Military and Disaster Relief Operations
www.des.mod.uk Issue 147 November 2020 the magazine for defence equipment desider and support DE&S equips British Army for military and disaster relief operations Invested in Britain Creating prosperity for the whole of the UK Through long-term partnerships with the UK Government, we support over 8,000 jobs across our supply chain in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. RAYTHEON.COM/UK © 2020 Raytheon Technologies. All rights reserved. 13_10_20_ADVERTS_MASTER.indd 1 19/10/2020 11:20 desider November 2020 Foreword ForewordBy Sir Simon Bollom, CEO and have, continued to support with British firms' involvement defence outputs to the best with the competition to build of our ability throughout. We the three warships launching in should celebrate our significant, 2021. numerous and varied successes Elsewhere, more Poseidon during these difficult times and aircraft have arrived at RAF despite various setbacks. Lossiemouth on the newly I feel a great sense of resurfaced runway and we have pride seeing the way we awarded a £46-million contract have continued to deliver a to provide rapidly deployable vast range of equipment and bridges for the British Army. support programmes. Whether We recently announced our working remotely at home, or partnership with Women’s continuing to attend your place Engineering Society; an of work, including at Abbey organisation dedicated to Wood or across our Defence offering inspiration, support Munitions, BFPO, and Logistic and professional development Delivery sites, your resilience to female engineers, scientists is admirable. It cannot be and technologists. We will be overstated how professionally working with them to nurture you have all adapted to our current talent and inspire the challenges we've been the next generation to consider presented with over the past a career in engineering.
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