Director Rob Johnson has been cited in a new Parliamentary Report by the House of Commons Defence Committee. The report is entitled “We’re going to need a bigger Navy” and looks at how the Royal Navy is being tasked with ever more responsibility in this increasingly unstable international security environment. The report hopes to provide a realist assessment of capability against government ambition and looks at the areas in which funding is desperately needed despite defence spending caps.

The report finds that “In short, over the next five years or so, at least until the new classes of surface escorts come on stream, the Royal Navy will be asked to do even more with even less. This is a clear risk, which those beyond these shores can calculate just as readily as we can.” The report goes on to recommend greater funding, stronger domestic shipbuilding capability, collaboration with industry to keep pace with and stay ahead of technological advances, and investment into modernising shipyards.

The report can be read here.