Ministry of Defence agencies and organisations

Part one of two

Defence agencies now provide the bulk of defence support. They already employ 30,000 Service personnel and 63,000 civilian staff, as well as contractors, and account for over a quarter of the defence budget. 
Agencies are here to stay. They are the cutting edge of the drive for improved management and greater efficiency in defence.
The following is a list of contact points for defence agencies and organisations (with email addresses where pertinent) to assist organisations seeking to do business with the MoD.

Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency (AFPAA)
Provides, on a tri-Service basis, the data and systems for the payment of, and the personnel management for, all military personnel.
Administration Agency
Building 182
RAF Innsworth
Gloucestershire GL3 1HW
Tel: 01452 712612 

Army Base Repair Organisation (ABRO)
ABRO is an engineering service, repair and re-manufacturing organisation offering a worldwide capability to defence, emergency services and other governmental and non-governmental organisations. 
ABRO capabilities range from small arms to battle tanks, from motorcycles to commercial fleet management, and from binoculars to thermal imaging equipment. This ensures ABRO can uniquely offer customers a comprehensive one-point service, repair and 
re-manufacturing solution.
A highly flexible and strategically sited workforce of 2500 ensures 
that ABRO is capable of meeting large-scale repair and overhaul requirements. An unusually wide range of skills and expertise together with detailed knowledge allows ABRO to compete effectively in a wide range of equipment types and technologies, across world markets. 
ABRO 
Building 203
Portway
Monxton Road
Andover SP11 8HT
Tel: 01264 383295
Web: www.abro.mod.uk/

Army Personnel Centre (APC)
The APC mans the Army, manages the career of Army personnel, provides Army pay, personnel and pensions administration.
Kentigern House
65 Brown Street
Glasgow G2 8EX 
Tel: 0141 224 3015 

Army Training & Recruitment Agency (ATRA)
ATRA is responsible for providing recruitment and training services for the British Army. 
The Agency Headquarters is based at Upavon, close to many of the training units. Recruiting is carried out from 123 sites in towns and cities throughout the country and individual training is conducted at some 40 schools.
With a staff of about 12,000, the Agency is responsible for MoD land, buildings and field assets valued at more than £1.25 billion. The annual budget is £600-700 million from which ATRA is required to enlist about 15,000 recruits and to train a total of about 100,000 officers and soldiers. ATRA conducts almost 1500 different courses, with over 6000 actual courses run each year. There are an average of 
12,000 officers and soldiers under training at any one time.
HQ ATRA
Trenchard Lines
Upavon 
Wiltshire SN9 6BE
Tel: 01980 615220
Fax: 01980 615305
Web: www.atra.mod.uk/atra/index.htm

British Forces Post Office (BFPO)
BFPO provides mail delivery services to British Forces worldwide. 
British Forces Postal Services (BFPO)
Inglis Barracks
Mill Hill 
London NW7 1PX
Tel: 020 8818 6310
Web: www.bfpo.org.uk/

Central Data Management Authority (CDMA)
The CDMA is a tri-Service/Civil Service organisation responsible for ensuring data is defined consistently across the MoD to enable 
IS interoperability.
The CDMA mission is to enable information interoperability by ensuring that information has common meaning wherever it is used within the MoD. Its vision is to enable seamless information interoperability within the MoD and between the MoD, its allies and industry.
Email: helpdesk.cdma@gtnet.gov.uk
Web: www.cdma.mod.uk/

Computer Emergency Response Team (MODCERT)
MODCERT is responsible for coordinating the MoD’s response to computer security incidents. 
The UK MoD is a member organisation of both the international Federation of Incident Response Security Teams (FIRST) and the Trusted Introducer (TI) scheme, which aim to provide a mechanism for Computer Security Incident information to be shared amongst communities of interest.
This function is often colloquially known as a CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team), and the MoD organisation is therefore known as the MODCERT.
MODCERT is a distributed organisation, consisting of a central 
Co-ordination Centre (the Joint Security Co-ordination Centre or JSyCC), and a number of Monitoring and Reporting Centres (MRCs), Warning, Advice and Reporting Points (WARPs), and Incident Response Teams (IRTs). MODCERT works closely with the 
UK Government CERT (GCERT) at UNIRAS.
Tel: 07218 8715 (24 hrs/7 days)
Fax: 07218 1165
Email: cert@cert.mod.uk
Web: www.mod.uk/cert/

Defence Academy
The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom formed on 
1 April 2002 under the Directorship of Sir Roger Jackling. The Defence Academy is to be a national and international centre of excellence, providing civilian and military personnel with a high-quality education, primarily at post-graduate level, and conducting research in fields related to defence. 
It has brought together the following organisations: 
•	Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) 
•	Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) 
•	Royal Military College of Science (RMCS) 
•	Defence Leadership Centre (DLC) 
•	Conflict Studies Research Centre (CSRC) 
•	Defence School of Finance and Management (DSFM) 
•	Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre (AFCC) 
•	Welbeck College (Welbeck) 
Web: www.da.mod.uk/DefenceAcademy

Defence Analytical Services Agency (DASA)
DASA is part of the UK MoD, providing professional statistical and analytical services to customers across the MoD, and, as it says in its motto, “information with insight”. 
The Agency has around 160 staff spread over five sites in the south  – Bath, Bristol, Gloucester, Portsmouth and Upavon (near Swindon), and on two sites in London. This is because our staff work alongside their major customers.
DASA staff are also part of the Government Statistical Service (GSS), the corporate professional grouping to which they all belong. DASA is working towards releasing all its key publications under the National Statistics programme. 
Defence Analytical Services Agency 
Ministry of Defence 
Room 1/124 
St Christopher House 
Southwark Street 
London SE1 0TD 
Tel: 020 7305 2193
Web: www.dasa.mod.uk/

Defence Aviation Repair Agency (DARA)
DARA was formed in April 1999 to offer a range of services across all aspects of MoD aviation repair support, in essence providing a ‘one-stop shop’ for maintenance, repair and overhaul. The Agency became a Trading Fund on 1 April 2001 – in the shortest timescale possible. 
Today DARA is leaner and fitter, firmly focused on its customers and determined to provide a flexible, responsive and efficient service. 
DARA St Athan 
Barry 
Vale of Glamorgan CF62 4WA 
Tel: 01446 798893 
Fax: 01446 798892
Web: www.dara.mod.uk/

Defence Aviation Safety Centre (DASC)
The DASC is a new tri-Service policy, regulation and auditing body within MoD Central Staffs that acts as the executive arm of the Defence Aviation Safety Board (DASB), and is the MoD focus for 
pan-Defence Aviation Safety issues.
Defence Aviation Safety Centre
Ministry of Defence
PO Box 333
RAF Bentley Priory
Stanmore
Middlesex HA7 3YN
Web: www.dasc.mod.uk/index.htm

Defence Bills Agency (DBA)
Primarily responsible for paying bills submitted to the MoD by defence contractors, the DBA’s aim is to pay 100% of correctly presented bills within 11 calendar days of receipt. This represents part of the MoD’s 30-day payment target in accordance with the Late Payment of Commercial Debt (Interest) Act 1998.
Defence Bills Agency
Mersey House
Drury Lane
Liverpool L2 7PX
Tel: 0151 242 2519
Web: www.defencebills.gov.uk/

Defence Clothing IPT
The Defence Clothing Integrated Project Team supplies tri-Service uniforms, clothing and other specialist equipment, including engineer stores and general stores. Responsibilities include research and development, quality control and procurement. 
Defence Clothing IPT
Skimmingdish Lane
Caversfield
Bicester
Oxford OX27 8TS
Tel: 01869 875548
Fax: 01869 875509
Web: www.sbo.mod.uk

Defence Communication Services Agency (DCSA)
The DCSA aims to provide its customers with the optimum 
end-to-end wide area information transfer services to meet defence needs.
DCSA Headquarters
Basil Hill 
Park Lane
Corsham
Wiltshire SN13 9NR 
Tel: 01225 814785
Fax: 01225 814268

Defence Dental Agency (DDA)
The DDA provides dental personnel to supply dental treatment for Service personnel and overseas dependants.
Defence Dental Agency HQ
RAF Halton
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire HP22 5PG
Tel: 01296 623535 

Defence Diversification Agency
The DDA was born from the realisation that a major source of innovation – UK defence laboratories – was unknown to most of the business world.
The DDA provides businesses with commercially focused access to many of the best technical and scientific brains in the UK. 
Tel: 08456 003372
Web: www.dda.gov.uk/

Defence Estates (DE)
Defence Estates manages and maintains the MoD’s estates in the UK and abroad. Through DE the MoD owns approximately 1% of the UK land mass, making MoD the UK’s largest landowner. DE spends in the region of £12 billion annually maintaining and developing this resource and it is responsible for the placing of all construction-related contracts for the MoD. 
Most of these opportunities are announced in the publication 
MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin (incorporating MoD Works Services Opportunities), published by BiP Solutions Ltd.
Defence Estates
St Georges House
Blakemore Drive
Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands B75 7RL 
Tel: 0121 311 3850
Web: www.defence-estates.mod.uk/indexn.htm

Defence Export Services Organisation (DESO)
DESO is responsible for coordinating and providing support for UK manufacturers of defence equipment. 
DESO
Ministry of Defence
Room 1/55 Metropole Building
Northumberland Avenue
London WC2N 5BL
Tel: 0207 807 8180/8226
Fax: 0207 807 8175
Web: www.deso.mod.uk/

Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency (DGIA)
The DGIA provides imagery intelligence and geographic support to defence policy, planning, operations and training.
Watson Building
Elmwood Avenue
Feltham
Middlesex TW13 7AH 
Tel: 020 8818 2119 

Defence Housing Executive (DHE)
The DHE is responsible for managing and maintaining all Service families accommodation on behalf of the MoD in England, Scotland and Wales. It is a tri-Service organisation within the MoD.
St Christopher House 
Southwark Street
London SE1 0TE
Tel: 020 7921 2777
Fax: 020 7921 2005

Defence Intelligence and Security Centre (DISC)
DISC trains the armed forces and other intelligence organisations in security, psychological and intelligence operations.
Chicksands
Shefford
Bedfordshire SG17 5PR
Tel: 01462 752 228
Fax: 01462 752 291

Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO)
Providing joint logistic support to the UK’s Armed Forces, the DLO is the single largest organisation in the MoD, with an annual spend of over £6 billion and £20 billion worth of assets spread across some 
80 major UK sites. It employs 33,000 staff – many of whom work in its 68 Integrated Project Teams delivering support on individual pieces of equipment, although others work in a range of units and agencies responsible for the supply of vital support services such as communications, storage, transport, fuel, munitions and food.    
The DLO consists primarily of five major Business Units – each providing specialist logistics for Air, Sea, Land, Communications and Defence Logistic Support (e.g fuel, warehousing, food). 
Defence Logistics Organisation
Spur 9
E Block
Ainsley 
Bath BA1 6AG
Fax: 01869 875629  
Web: www.mod.uk/dlo/index.html

Defence Medical Services (DMS)
The DMS comprises the Defence Medical Services Department (DMSD), the Defence Dental Agency (DDA), the Defence Medical Education and Training Agency (DMETA) and the three single-Service Medical Directorates.
The DMS provides military medical personnel to the Armed Forces and ensures that these personnel are correctly trained and current in their specialities to enable them to fulfil any operational requirement. Combined with this, consultants, specialists, nurses, technicians and other medical professionals work within the 
NHS and alongside NHS colleagues, usually in MoD Hospital Units (MDHUs).
Web: www.dmsd.mod.uk/index.htm

Defence Medical Training Organisation (DMTO)
The DMTO is responsible for the individual medical services training of personnel from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force, including Reserves. 
This training is carried out through a mixed programme of internal courses – at the Royal Defence Medical College in Gosport and at the Defence Medical Services Training Centre in Aldershot – and in external academic and clinical institutions.
Building 87
Fort Blockhouse
Gosport
Hampshire PO12 2AB
Tel: 02392 765543

Defence Procurement Agency (DPA)
Equipping the Armed Forces is the DPA’s central mission. It procures new equipment for the Armed Forces and provides other procurement-related services to its customers. Based at Abbey Wood in north Bristol, the DPA was launched on 1 April 1999 as an Executive Agency of the MoD, replacing the MoD Procurement Executive. 
The DPA’s objectives are to: buy weapons systems and platforms and manage major upgrades; deliver projects within defined performance, time and cost bands; provide certain procurement-related services, guidance and standards; and participate in the UK’s military nuclear programmes. 
With an annual budget of £6 billion, the DPA is the single biggest purchaser of manufactured goods in the UK. At any one time, its 
4300 staff are managing more than 13,000 contracts, ranging from the purchase of submarines to small parts for a field radio. 
Defence Procurement Agency
MoD Abbey Wood
Bristol BS34 8JH
Tel: 0117 913 0000
Web: www.mod.uk/dpa/index.html

Defence Scientific Advisory Council (DSAC)
DSAC provides independent advice to the Secretary of State for Defence on matters of concern to the MoD in the fields of science, engineering and technology. DSAC is a Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB), ie a body which has a role in the process of national government but is not a government department or part of one, and which accordingly operates to a greater or lesser extent at arm’s length from Ministers. It is an Advisory NDPB in that it advises Ministers and does not employ staff or incur expenditure on its own account. 
DSAC is established to provide independent advice to the Secretary of State for Defence on matters of concern to the MoD in the fields of science, engineering & technology. 
DSAC Room 2276 
Room 513
MoD Main Building Whitehall 
Northumberland Avenue
London WC21V 5BT 
Tel: 020 7218 0333
Fax: 020 7218 4066 (84066MB)
Web: www.mod.uk/dsac/index.html

Defence Scientific and Technical Laboratory (Dstl)
The DSTL provides specialist scientific and technical support to the MoD. 
The name Dstl may be new, but the key scientific research conducted at eminent locations such as Farnborough, Porton Down and Malvern has been part of Britain’s national heritage for decades.
With a tradition of outstanding research and analysis that has been at the heart of the UK defence system for over a century, Dstl is an integral part of the MoD as its trusted adviser on defence-related science and technology.
Dstl has a 3000-strong workforce of dedicated world-class professionals. It comprises all the defence laboratories and capabilities retained within government from Dstl’s forerunner organisation, the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA).
Dstl Farnborough
Cody Tech Park
Ively Road
Farnborough GU14 0LX
Tel: 01252 455000
Fax: 01252 455013
Email: central-enquiries@dstl.gov.uk

Defence Secondary Care Agency (DSCA)
The key task of the DSCA is to provide the UK’s front-line Armed Forces, wherever they are in action, with fully trained service doctors, nurses and other medical staff. To achieve this, the Agency provides a peacetime structure within which clinicians and other medical personnel can develop their professional and military skills by treating a full range of patients. 
Defence Secondary Care Agency
Room 4/153
St Christopher House
90-114 Southwark Street
London SE1 0TD
Tel: 020 7305 6042

Defence Standardization (DStan)
DStan’s main purpose is to develop, facilitate and communicate 
 UK MoD standardization policies, standards, procedures and guidance on standardization issues. 
DStan Helpdesk
UK Defence Standardization
Room 1138
Kentigern House
65 Brown Street
Glasgow G2 8EX
Tel: 0141 224 2531/2532
Fax: 0141 224 2503
Email: enquiries@dstan.mod.uk
Web: www.dstan.mod.uk

Part 2 will focus on MoD organisations from the Defence Storage and Distribution Agency to the Warship Support Agency.