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Sustaining Key Skills in the UK Naval Industry
To preserve its ability to design, build, and support complex warships and submarines, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) will need to preserve and sustain several key technical skills in the maritime domain, particularly those of designers and engineers at various stages of surface ship and submarine acquisition and support. Its current naval acquisition programme, comprising several classes of vessels (such as the Astute-class attack submarine and the Future Aircraft Carrier), has brought forward questions regarding the MOD's ability to design, build, and support the intended fleet size. Building on prior RAND research, this monograph explores in greater detail the need for and retention of specific technical skills in the UK's naval industrial base. It investigates the relationship between the demand created by the MOD's surface ship and submarine acquisition programme and the technical workforce needed to design, build, and support those war vessels. The results reveal that, although the MOD has taken into account the need for these skills, its future naval programme likely will have to be modified or augmented to sustain these technical skills in the long term. In particular, the MOD needs to nurture design and engineering skills to bridge current and future gaps as its naval acquisition programme moves forward.
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Contents
Chapter One:
Introduction
Chapter Two:
Project Methodology and Data Sources
Chapter Three:
Identifying and Defining Key Skills
Chapter Four:
How Technical Skills Are Represented in the UK Maritime Industry
Chapter Five:
Total Labour Demand by Current MOD Maritime Shipbuilding Programmes
Chapter Six:
Demand for Individual Technical Skills Generated by MOD Current Complex Surface Ship and Submarine Programmes
Chapter Seven:
Key Findings
Chapter Eight:
Areas for Further Investigation
Appendix A:
Incorporating Support, Repair/Refit, and Other Labour into the Shipyard Labour Modelling Tool
Appendix B:
Accounting for Low-Population, Highly Specialised Skills
Appendix C:
RAND's Shipbuilding Modelling Tool
Appendix D:
Demand for Individual Technical Skills from MOD's Baseline Shipbuilding Programme
Appendix E:
Survey of Shipyards
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