Defence Storage and Distribution Agency
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The Defence Storage and Distribution Agency was an executive agency
of the Government of the United Kingdom under the Ministry of Defence
. Its chief executive was Neil Firth. The DSDA operated from locations in the United Kingdom and northern Germany
and was the storage and distribution arm of the Defence Equipment & Support
(DE&S) organisation. The role of the Agency was to store, maintain, issue, process and distribute materiel for the MoD and other designated users.
From 1 August 2010 DSDA became one of a number of Joint Support Chain Teams within DE&S and is no longer an executive agency of the MoD.
Executive agency
An executive agency, also known as a next-step agency, is a part of a government department that is treated as managerially and budgetarily separate in order to carry out some part of the executive functions of the United Kingdom government, Scottish Government, Welsh Assembly or Northern Ireland...
of the Government of the United Kingdom under the Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Defence is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces....
. Its chief executive was Neil Firth. The DSDA operated from locations in the United Kingdom and northern Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and was the storage and distribution arm of the Defence Equipment & Support
Defence Equipment & Support
Defence Equipment and Support is the name of the merged procurement and support organisation within the UK Ministry of Defence. It came into being on 2 April 2007, bringing together the MoD's Defence Procurement Agency and the Defence Logistics Organisation under the leadership of General Sir...
(DE&S) organisation. The role of the Agency was to store, maintain, issue, process and distribute materiel for the MoD and other designated users.
From 1 August 2010 DSDA became one of a number of Joint Support Chain Teams within DE&S and is no longer an executive agency of the MoD.
Mission
- To sustain the fighting power of UK Armed Forces worldwide by providing a storage, processing and distribution service that meets the highest levels of professional excellence.
Vision
- A customer driven, commercially aware, storage, distribution and processing organisation within the transforme Defence Supply Chain. Through working in collaboration with our staff, customers, consumers and the DE&S, we have a team that can meet in full the logistics challenges posed to the MOD in the 21st Century.