The Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support, formerly the Chief of Defence Materiel, is a senior post in the UK Ministry of Defence created in April 2007. It merges the roles of Chief of Defence Procurement and Chief of Defence Logistics into a single post responsible for leading

Defence Equipment and Support Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) is a trading entity and joint-defence organisation within the UK Ministry of Defence. It began operating on 2 April 2007, following the merger of the MoD's Defence Procurement Agency and the Defence Logistics ...

Postholders

Chief of Defence Materiel * General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue 2 April 2007–December 2010 * Sir Bernard Gray from 4 January 2011–2015 Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support * Tony Douglas September 2015–January 2018 * Michael Bradley January 2018–May 2018 * Sir Simon Bollom May 2018–September 2022 * Andy Start September 2022 – Present

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United Kingdom defence procurement British military appointments {{UK-mil-stub