TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - The defence firm of the future
JO  - Defence and peace economics
A1  - Gates, Eleanor
SP  - 509
EP  - 517
VL  - 15
IS  - 6
N2  - This paper offers the personal view of a senior executive in the Defence Procurement Agency about the future requirements of the defence industry's principal UK customer. The focus here is on trying to identify the type of corporate behaviour and range of skill sets that the UK Government will need from defence suppliers, both primes and supply chain companies in the future. The concluding message from this 'Customer View' is that there is likely to be a continuing market for the company that specializes in delivering defence capability. It will be a company that will be looking for a long-term relationship, with a specialist knowledge of its various national customers and a willingness to work openly and closely with them. It will be agile in its ability to bring together diverse technologies, to package them as a system and to deliver them either as hardware or as a service. Such suppliers will also need to innovate and to adapt at least as rapidly as the threats that they seek to counter.<p /> 
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SN  - 1024-2694
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1024269042000246666
ID  - ref1
ER  -