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Defence Equipment and Support

British MOD's defence procurement arm
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Defence Equipment and Support

Summary

Defence Equipment and Support is a government agency[1]. It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Defence Equipment and Support is located in Bristol[3].
  • Defence Equipment and Support is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's instance of is recorded as government agency[5].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's headquarters location is recorded as Bristol[6].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's ISNI is recorded as 0000000121508370[7].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 137466002[8].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as nb2008016089[9].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's child organization or unit is recorded as Directorate of Engineering and Safety[10].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's child organization or unit is recorded as Defence Electronics and Components Agency[11].
  • +2007-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Defence Equipment and Support[12].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02ptzb2[13].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's parent organization or unit is recorded as Ministry of Defence[14].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's official website is recorded as https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/defence-equipment-and-support[15].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's official website is recorded as https://des.mod.uk/[16].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+12500'}[17].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's replaces is recorded as Defence Procurement Agency[18].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's replaces is recorded as Defence Logistics Organisation[19].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's replaces is recorded as Defence Support Group[20].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'DE&S'}[21].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's X is recorded as DefenceES[22].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's Instagram username is recorded as defence_equipment_support[23].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's Facebook username is recorded as DefenceES[24].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's YouTube channel ID is recorded as UCKc8rCBhCkF6lWMNnCmMsag[25].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's GRID ID is recorded as grid.494001.8[26].
  • Defence Equipment and Support's exact match is recorded as https://findthatcharity.uk/orgid/XI-ROR-00jztws02[27].

Body

Founding

+2007-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Defence Equipment and Support[12].

Identity

Defence Equipment and Support's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'DE&S'}[21].

Operations

Defence Equipment and Support's headquarters location is recorded as Bristol[6]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as Ministry of Defence[14]. Subsidiaries include Directorate of Engineering and Safety[10] and Defence Electronics and Components Agency[11], a government agency[28], in United Kingdom[29], founded in 2015[30].

Why It Matters

Defence Equipment and Support is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Related Entities

Bristol United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . gov.uk. gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . GRID Release 2018-02-08. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . FindThatCharity.uk. Retrieved . findthatcharity.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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