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Defence Engineering and Science Group - Site presents information on the work of the DESG and the opportunities it offers for training and career development.
Defence Bills Agency - DBA provides a range of services to the Ministry of Defence in respect of bill payment, debt recovery and the provision of associated management information. This site is mainly aimed at MOD contractors and finance branches, providing information on prompt payment and contact points.
Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom - Central corporate site of the UK Ministry of Defence. Provides information on the UK's armed forces and the Ministry, obtaining service records, policy documents and Defence news.
UK National Codification Bureau - Responsible for NATO Codification in the United Kingdom.
Directorate of Standardisation - Responsible for defining Defence Standards. Site provides a large archive of Standards documents in Adobe PDF format.
British Defence Staff in the United States - Based at the British Embassy in Washington DC, the British Defence Staff deal with all aspects of US-UK defence matters. Site provides a range of information on UK Defence for an American audience.
Central Data Management Authority - Responsible for ensuring consistent definition of data across the MOD and Services to enable interoperability amongst information systems.
Defence Export Services Organisation - Responsible for promoting and licensing the export of British military equipment.
The Hydrographic Office - United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, responsible for producing Admiralty charts of the waters off Britain and around the world.
Directorate General Commercial Organisation - Provides advice on a wide range of commercial issues to the Defence Procurement Agency (DPA), the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO), and to all other Top Level Budget Holders (TLBs) in the Ministry of Defence. Site provides DEFCONs, DEFFORMs and other guidance useful to industry.
Duke of York's Royal Military School - The Duke of York's Royal Military School (an agency of the UK Ministry of Defence) provides a unique education for 11-18 year old children of those who have served for a minimum of four years on regular engagements in the British Armed Forces.
Disposal Services Agency - The Disposal Services Agency (formerly Disposal Sales Agency) provides a managed disposal service for Government and public sector organisations, focusing on asset realisation, inventory disposal, site clearances, waste management and consulting plus project management.
Training Group Defence Agency - Responsible for the recruitment and selection of all Royal Air Force personnel and for the policy and delivery of Royal Air Force non-operational training.
Defence Estates - Site of the Defence Estates Agency - responsible for the properties and lands owned by the MOD.
Design Repository - MOD programme which aims to establish an accurate and consistent equipment related data across the Land environment for new and legacy equipment.
Met. Office - Provides UK and international weather forecasting services for the Ministry of Defence, business and the public.
Defence Analytical Services Agency - Official source of UK Defence Statistics and National Statistics publications for the MoD.
Defence Scientific and Technical Laboratory - Provides advice and technical support to the Ministry of Defence on science and technology issues. Site gives information on careers opportunities, products and services offered.
British Forces Post Office - Provides mail delivery services to British Forces worldwide. Site provides information on mail services, including the "e-Bluey" electronic mail service available online.
Defence Aviation Repair Agency - Responsible for a range of services across all aspects of MOD aviation repair support. Site provides a wide range of information on DARA's operations, sections and locations.
Defence Scientific Advisory Council - Provides independent advice to the Secretary of State for Defence on matters of concern to the Ministry of Defence in the fields of science, engineering and technology.
Warship Support Agency - Provides logistic support to the Fleet and to other in-service maritime elements of the armed services.
Veterans Agency - Ministry of Defence agency responsible for veterans' affairs, including war and service pensions, service records, military graves, medals and welfare issues.
Defence Storage & Distribution Agency - Provides the UK Armed Forces with storage and distribution services. Site offers background information on the agency, contact details and business information.
Defence Procurement Agency - Ministry of Defence agency responsible for the procurement of equipment for the Armed Forces.
Defence Logistics Organisation - Provides joint logistic support to the UK's Armed Forces.
Defence Technology Centres - Collaborative research centres bringing together defence scientists and industry to generate, develop and exploit innovative technology for UK Defence.
Defence Vetting Agency - Responsible for carrying out, and maintaining, national security checks on military and civilian staff employed by the MOD, private sector personnel employed on defence related work, and staff in a number of other government departments.
Ministry of Defence Police - Provides policing services on the Defence Estate.
Defence Section British Embassy Seoul - A summary of what's on including the Gloster Valley, Kapyong ceremonies, and Veterans' revisits to Korea.
Strategic and Combat Studies Institute - The SCSI is a MOD-sponsored but independent organisation that brings together on a regular basis those interested in defence studies and related fields. Site provides details of activities and publications.
International Visits Control Office - Provides details on the role of IVCO in sponsoring visits to UK defence establishments by non-UK citizens and visits by UK nationals to defence establishment sites overseas.
UK Military Flight Training System - Project to replace the present flying training arrangements in the UK by 2010. Provides information about the aims of the project, key stakeholders, systems and technologies.
UK Ministry of Defence Acquisition Management System - Comprehensive information site providing information on Smart Acquisition processes and programmes.
Defence Diversification Agency - Promotes the cross fertilisation of technology between the defence sector and Industry. Site provides case studies and details of DDA services and projects.
Defence Academy of the United Kingdom - Aims to provide civilian and military personnel with a high-quality education, primarily at post-graduate level, and conduct research in fields related to defence.
Joint Air Transport Evaluation Unit - Responsible for evaluating and devising systems and procedures for UK military air transportation.
Defence Contracts Online - Electronic version of the MOD Contracts Bulletin. Provides a searchable database of upcoming MOD tenders, contracts and future purchases.
MOD Procurement Portal - UK Ministry of Defence Procurement Portal, providing access to the MOD Defence Contracts Bulletin and a wide range of information relating to doing business with the MOD.
British Forces Germany - Official site of British Forces Germany, providing information for Service and civilian staff on the BFG organisation, welfare, support services and events.
Northwood Headquarters - Home of the Permanent Joint Headquarters (including the JFHQ), the Commander Naval Forces North (one of NATO’s three major Commanders) and Headquarters of Commander in Chief Fleet.
Royal College of Defence Studies - The RCDS is the senior Defence academic institution in the United Kingdom, bringing together high fliers - both military and civilian, selected by their governments - from every corner of the globe for a year-long international relations and security course.
Army Base Repair Organisation - Delivers to its prime customer, the British Army, a range of services, products and engineering advice across the whole spectrum of land based weapon systems and equipment.
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Ministry of Defence Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Ministry of Defence Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie Ministry of Defence Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Ministry of Defence I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ministry of Defence The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress Ministry of Defence There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Ministry of Defence "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Ministry of Defence Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Ministry of Defence The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ministry of Defence Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Ministry of Defence I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous Ministry of Defence I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Ministry of Defence Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan Ministry of Defence I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Ministry of Defence Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Ministry of Defence Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Ministry of Defence If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan Ministry of Defence Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Ministry of Defence The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Ministry of Defence If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Ministry of Defence "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Ministry of Defence
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