General Support Vehicles Integrated Project Team (GSV IPT) has become the latest IPT to choose DVD as its annual stakeholder event, confirming it as a leading forum for those involved in the design, supply and use of service vehicles and field support systems. GSV IPT will join DVD founder and organiser the SUV IPT (Specialist and Utility Vehicle Integrated Project Team) and ESS IPT (Engineering Systems Support Integrated Project Team), helping to ensure that DVD2007 will be even more comprehensive than last year’s record-breaking event.

Held at Millbrook’s all-terrain test and demonstration facility near Bedford, DVD is designed to bring manufacturers, purchasers, specifiers and senior users closer together. It provides a unique opportunity for the groups to discuss, learn

and experience the mobility systems that are increasingly critical to the success of the UK’s defence and emergency services.`

“DVD brings together a wide range of specialists involved in delivering mobility to the field,” explains SUV IPT team leader Nigel Gilhead. “Last year’s integration of ESS IPT proved to be a great success and we are looking to build upon this by extending the reach of DVD to include heavier vehicles from GSV. These additions will help our community to work even more closely together and continue to enhance the support we provide to field operations.”

GSV IPT is a through life IPT responsible for the procurement and in-service management of heavy logistic vehicles with a