SUV IPT ILS

Undertaking a Diagnostic Report to Bring UOR Procured Equipment Into Support

Urgent Operational Requirements (UORs) are critical to ensuring that there are no gaps in terms of operational capability.

The Specialist and Utility Vehicles Integrated Project Team (SUV IPT)is responsible for the acquisition and in-service management of protected mobility vehicles in support of operations - most recently Iraq and Afghanistan.

Challenge

Over recent years SUV IPT has undertaken a wide range of UOR programmes. With questions being increasingly raised of the long term sustainability and budgetary control of these UORs, the SUV IPT invited LSC Group to undertake a diagnostic report to understand the controls required to ensure effective UOR programme management.

Solution

SUV IPT invited LSC Group to undertake a diagnostic report for two major UOR projects - MASTIFF and JACKAL. The report was to identify what controls had to be delivered in terms of through life management planning, activities which needed to be undertaken and a plan of action for delivering the required level of assurance for transitioning both UOR platforms to enduring operations.

Benefits

The Diagnostic report provided the SUV IPT with a unified and repeatable approach to understanding the issues involved in transitioning a UOR project into service. This has proved invaluable in terms of highlighting areas for improvement.

The Diagnostic can provide the following benefits to any UOR Transition programme:

• Defence Lines of Development Framework - to ensure appropriate through-life support requirements are met against standard Governance and Assurance templates
• Alignment of current support arrangements to the principals of Through Life Capability Management
• Rich Picture mapping of key end to end business processes
• Stakeholder mapping - to ensure proper engagement with the wider stakeholder community
• Sponsor - establish robust requirements and performance indicators, to help assess through-life costs and optimise commercial contracts
• Training requirements - helping all stakeholders recognise the skills required for rapid acquisition and produce a comprehensive training course

As a result of the initial Diagnostic LSC Group has been asked to support the MoD in a workshop to review the results of the report and help to identify a way forward.