2013 Report details for project: Typhoon
| Project name | Typhoon - there are 3 reports for this project: 2013, 2014, 2015 |
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| Organisation | MOD (D17) - see all reports for this organisation |
| Report year | 2013 (data is from September 2012) |
| Category | Military - see all reports for this category |
| Description: | Typhoon is an agile multi-role combat aircraft for the RAF. It is being developed, produced and supported collaboratively with Germany, Italy and Spain. The RAF will receive 160 aircraft in three tranches and will form the cornerstone of the UKs air defence capabilities in the future along with Lightning II. The Typhoon Future Capability Programme provides enhancements to the Typhoon aircraft, both in the air-to-air and air-to-surface roles, sustaining the fleets multi-role capabilities. The first phase of the Future Capability Programme will integrate Paveway IV and the Lightning III Laser Designator Pod onto Tranche 2 aircraft. |
| DCA (RAG) | Amber/Green |
| DCA text: | At the time of this report the project was Green as self assessed by the Department which was taking action to further reinforce its recent improvements in cost control by re-baselining the first phase of aircraft software upgrades. This action would continue to make the overall Departmental self assessment of the project Green in subsequent reports. |
| Start date | 2003-06-01 |
| End date | 2018-04-10 |
| Schedule text | At the time of this report a minor deviation to the future software upgrade programme was being re-baselined by seeking a re-approval, bringing it back to the planned schedule. |
| Baseline | £827.79m |
| Forecast | £863.68m |
| Variance | 4.34% |
| Variance text: | Not required as variance is with +/- 5%. |
| Whole Life Cost | £18,251.98m |
| WLCost text: | WLC above is taken from the Budget figure provided through the 12/13 Q2 GMPP. A WLC based on the forecast figures may be more representative of the true cost of the programme. Whole Life Costs do not include Typhoon Support or some of the related Acquisition programmes such as Synthetic Training Aids, for example. |
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| Sourcefile | MOD_2013.csv |
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