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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

33. 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 ROPS 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

factories is expected to produce an output worth about £123

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

34. The Statement on the Defence Estimates 1971 (Când. 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 RAOC 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

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