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 The Chief of Defence Procurement was a senior post in the British Ministry of Defence. The post-holder was Chief Executive of the MoD Procurement Executive from 1971 until 1999 and then Chief Executive of the Defence Procurement Agency until 2007. I ...

and

Chief of Defence Logistics Chief may refer to: Title or rank Military and law enforcement * Chief master sergeant, the ninth, and highest, enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force * Chief of police, the head of a police department * Chief of the boat ...

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 Logisti ...

Postholders

Chief of Defence Materiel * General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue: 2 April 2007 – December 2010 * Sir

Bernard Gray Sir Bernard Peter Gray (born 6 September 1960 in Redhill, Surrey) is a British businessman, journalist, and former government worker. Education Gray read chemistry at the University of Oxford. Career Gray worked for five years in investment ...

: 4 January 2011 – 2015 Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support * Tony Douglas: September 2015 – January 2018 * Michael Bradley: January 2018 – May 2018 * Air Marshal Sir Simon Bollom: May 2018 – September 2022 * Andy Start: September 2022 – present

References

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