The Chief of Defence Procurement was a senior post in the

British Ministry of Defence The Ministry of Defence (MOD or MoD) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for implementing the defence policy set by the government and serves as the headquarters of the British Armed Forces. ...

. The post-holder was

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of the

MoD Procurement Executive The MoD Procurement Executive was the acquisition organisation of the Ministry of Defence. The Procurement Executive (widely known as ''PE'') was established on 2 August 1971 as a single procurement agency for all three services with Derek Rayner ...

from 1971 until 1999 and then Chief Executive of the

Defence Procurement Agency The Defence Procurement Agency (DPA), was an Executive Agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence responsible for the acquisition of materiel, equipment and services, for the British armed forces. Led by the Chief of Defence Procurement ...

until 2007. It was open to serving officers as well as civilians.

Chiefs of Defence Procurement

*Sir Derek Rayner (1971–1972)Hunting Defence Bargains
Flight Global, 31 May 1973 *Sir Michael Cary, KCB (1972–1974) *Sir

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, KCB OBE (1974–1975) *Sir Clifford Cornford, KCB (1975–1980) *Sir David Cardwell, KCB (1980–1982) *Air Chief Marshal Sir Douglas Lowe, GCB, DFC, AFC (1982–1983) *Sir David Perry, KCB (1983–1985) *Sir

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, KBE (1985–1991) *Sir Malcolm McIntosh, KBE, AC (1991–1996) *Vice Admiral Sir Robert Walmsley, KCB (1996–2003) *Vice Admiral Sir

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, KCB (2003–2007)Chief of Defence Procurement at the Ministry of Defence
/ref> The post was subsumed into

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 ...

on 1 April 2007.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chief Of Defence Procurement United Kingdom defence procurement British military appointments