2017 Report details for project: WATCHKEEPER
| Project name | WATCHKEEPER - there are 8 reports for this project: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 |
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| Organisation | MOD (D17) - see all reports for this organisation |
| Report year | 2017 (data is from September 2016) |
| Category | Military - see all reports for this category |
| Description: | WATCHKEEPER is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform that will provide battlefield surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to the land tactical commander within the Joint Operations environment. |
| DCA (RAG) | Amber |
| DCA text: | he Programme received an IPA AMBER rating on the 30th September and since then, recommendations associated with this rating have been addressed fully by the programme by November 2016. The overall DCA remained AMBER due to concerns over training and the achievement of a Release to Service. |
| Start date | 1998-03-01 |
| End date | 2017-07-03 |
| Schedule text | Due to the realisation of a training risk the SRO has taken the opportunity to delay the projected FOC 1 date and synchronise a number of Programme outcomes |
| Baseline | £43.16m |
| Forecast | £40.77m |
| Variance | -6.00% |
| Variance text: | Figures drawn from Q2 when a budget variance was predicted, this has now been closed to within 5% as year closure approaches. |
| Whole Life Cost | £1,116.75m |
| WLCost text: | Only costs to Full Operating Capability(FOC) are represented; mid life obsolescence work planned for the next decade are not. |
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| Sourcefile | IPA_2017.csv |
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