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Stuart Young
Stuart Young joined the Royal Navy in 1977 as a Marine
Engineer Officer and was educated to Masters-level at the
Royal Naval Engineering College in Plymouth. In addition
to operational appointments at sea, he has undertaken a
number of acquisition-related posts in the UK Ministry of
Defence. These included three years as the Defence
Equipment Marine Engineer with the Defence Staff at the
British Embassy in Washington, where he was responsible
for liaison with the US Department of Defence on a number
of key warship programmes. He was also the Electric Ship
Programme Manager in the Defence Procurement Agency
with direct responsibility for a major UK-French technology
development programme. This subsequently led to the selection of innovative
technologies for the propulsion systems on the Type 45 Destroyer and the Queen
Elizabeth class Aircraft Carrier.
More recently he was a key member of the team developing the Defence Logistics
Organisations strategic plan for achieving defence logistics transformation. This was
followed by a period as Business Manager for the Defence Electronic Commerce
Service, a Public-Private Partnership between the MoD and Capgemini to provide a
range of e-business services to the MoD. In his final appointment in the Royal Navy
he was the Assistant Director in the Defence Management and Leadership Centre at
Shrivenham, where he was responsible for senior management development
programmes, with particular emphasis on the development of acquisition skills to
meet the requirements of the Defence Acquisition Change Programme.
Following his retirement from the Royal Navy in April 2008, Stuart joined Cranfield
University as the Deputy Director of the Centre for Defence Acquisition, where he has
a particular interest in the relationship between the MoD and Industry across the
supply chain, performance-based contracting, the development of agile strategies for
major acquisition programmes and decision making processes in projects and
programmes. He is currently Head of the Centre for Defence Acquisition and is
leading a comprehensive programme of education and research activities across the
spectrum of defence acquisition and procurement.
Stuart is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering,
Science and Technology and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He is
married, with two children, one a doctor and the other working in a NonGovernmental Organisation in South Sudan. In his spare time he is a keen dinghy
sailor and dabbles in photography.
Contact Details:
Centre for Defence Acquisition
Vincent Centre, Cranfield University, Defence Academy, Shrivenham, Swindon SN6 8LA
Tel. +44 (0) 1793 785051
Mob. +44 (0) 7710 643193
E: s.young@cranfield.ac.uk
Twitter: @yuts
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartyoung01
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Stuart Young se vincula a la Armada Real Britnica en 1977 como oficial (Ingeniero
Naval) y se educa a nivel de maestra en el Colegio de Ingeniera Real Naval en
Plymouth. Sumado a sus compromisos operacionales en el mar. Dentro de su
trayectoria ha adelantado sendos procesos de adquisicin relacionados al Ministerio
de Defensa del Reino Unido. Esto ha incluido tres aos como Ingeniero Naval en el
rea de equipos de defensa como enlace de la Embajada Britnica en Washington,
donde ostentaba la responsabilidad de ser el enlace con el Departamento de Defensa
de los EEUU en un nmero de programas especficos de buques de guerra. Adems
de esto fue director del programa (Electric Ship) con la agencia de adquisiciones de
defensa, con responsabilidad directa en un programa de desarrollo entre el Reino
Unido y Francia. Esto condujo posteriormente a la seleccin de tecnologas
innovadoras para los sistemas de propulsin del tipo 45 destructor y la clase reina
Isabel portaaviones
Recientemente, fue miembro clave del equipo de desarrollo del plan estratgico de la
Organizacin Logstica de la Defensa con el fin de lograr la transformacin de la
logstica de defensa. Esto fue seguido por un perodo como Gerente de Negocios para
la Defensa Servicio de Comercio Electrnico, una asociacin pblico-privada entre el
Ministerio de Defensa y Capgemini para proporcionar una gama de servicios de
comercio electrnico para el Ministerio de Defensa. En su ltima cita en la Marina
Real fue Director Adjunto de la Gestin y Liderazgo Centro de Defensa en
Shrivenham, donde fue responsable de los programas de desarrollo de gestin de alto
nivel, con especial nfasis en el desarrollo de habilidades de adquisicin para cumplir
con los requisitos de la Adquisicin de Defensa.
Despus de su retiro de la Marina Real en abril de 2008, Stuart se uni a la
Universidad de Cranfield como Director Adjunto del Centro para la Defensa de
Adquisicin, en el que tiene un inters particular en la relacin entre el Ministerio de
Defensa e Industria a travs de la, la contratacin basada en el desempeo de la
cadena de suministro, el desarrollo de estrategias giles para los principales
programas de adquisicin y los procesos de toma de decisiones en los proyectos y
programas. Actualmente es Jefe del Centro para la Defensa de Adquisicin y lidera un
amplio programa de actividades de educacin y de investigacin de todo el espectro
de la adquisicin de defensa y las adquisiciones.

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