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Fund has brought, should provide the opportunity and means to
improve upon the high standards maintained in the past.
Future Programme
32. Planned production in 1975-76 includes ammunition, explosives
and air-dropped weapons, armoured fighting vehicles and combat
reconnaissance vehicles, guns of various calibres (including the
new light field gun), cannon and general purpose machine guns and
contributions to the guided-weapons programme. The ROFS co-operate
with the Ministry of Defence's Research and Development Establishments
in development work on, among other things, armoured vehicles, guns
and ammunition. The organisation - eleven factories and two agency
is expected to produce an output worth about £1267
factories
Ma
million; some 40 per cent of this will be for export, including
equipment for our European Allies. In common with the United
Kingdom defence industry, the ROF organisation is making the
necessary arrangements for assuming full responsibility for quality
control and plans to complete these during 1976.
ARMY SUPPORT ORGANISATION
Royal Army Ordnance Corps Computerised Inventory System
33. The Statement on the Defence Estimates 1971 (Cmnd. 4592) outlined
plans for a computerised Central Inventory Control Point (CICP) at
Bicester to improve the management of Ordnance materiel. The CICP
was opened in April 1972 and the Royal Army Ordnance Corps' commodity
range has been virtually transferred to it. Control of BAOC stocks in
the British Army of the Rhine has been taken over by an Inventory
Control Point (ICP) at Viersen, directly linked with the CICP. Control
by computer has also been extended to Berlin and will be fully
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