Sustaining key skills in the UK military aircraft industry (RAND, 2010)
"Rand Europe.". - "Prepared for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-138)
"In December 2005, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) published its first Defence Industrial Strategy, containing a specific reference to the military fixed wing aircraft sector and a requirement to retain domestic design and engineering capabilities, as well as other skills, to perform through-life activities. In 2009, the House of Commons Defence Committee urged the MOD to "set out what assessment it has made of the health of the UK defence industry and, in particular, those parts of the defence industry where the MOD wishes to retain industrial capability in the UK." The research reported in this monograph was commissioned by the MOD's Fixed Wing Sector Strategy Board to assist the MOD in its development of a strategy and sustainment plan for the military fixed wing sector. The RAND study was conducted between August and December 2009 and focused on the current health and future sustainment of key skills in the UK fixed wing military industrial base. This monograph describes the qualitative and quantitative methodologies that the RAND team followed and summarises its findings and recommendations."--Provided by publisher
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgements; Chapter One:Introduction; Origins of aerospace skill study; The Defence Industrial Strategy and the military fixed wing sector; Overview of the UK aerospace industry; Civil aerospace sector; Military fixed wing sector; Study scope; Organisation of the report; Chapter Two:Project Methodology and Data Sources; Summary of research approach; Methodology; Task 1: Develop taxonomy; Task 2: Define and survey key skills; Task 3: Model future MOD fixed wing programme
Task 4: Perform skills analysis and health assessmentTask 5: Map key skills to future programme; Tasks 6 and 7: Identify findings and recommendations; Chapter Three:The Research Framework; A taxonomy of competences; Aircraft domains; Life cycle phases; Summary of research framework; Chapter Four:Demographics of the Military Fixed Wing Workforce; Introduction and context; Location of the military fixed wing industrial base; Size and shape of the military fixed wing sector; Age, experience and productivity profiles; Overall age profile; Age profiles by competence; Workforce experience