MoD’s drive for competition is a security threat, Defence Secretary warned

A new system for awarding contracts to support the Royal Navy poses a potential threat to Britain’s national security, the Government has been warned. Unions have written to Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, claiming that splitting work into smaller work packages to create more competition endangers the country’s military power, including the Navy’s Trident submarine nuclear deterrent. Worth hundreds of millions of pounds, the new Future Maritime Support Programme (FMSP) prov