Defence Communication Services Agency
The Defence Communication Services Agency (DCSA) was an agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence responsible for the procurement and delivery of Communications and Information Services (CIS) to the defence community and related public and private sector bodies. The Agency was formed on 1 April 1998, bringing together a range of CIS organisations across all three services.
DCSA logo | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1 April 1998 |
| Dissolved | 31 March 2007 |
| Superseding agency | |
| Type | Executive agency |
| Status | Dissolved |
| Headquarters | Basil Hill Barracks, Wiltshire, England |
| Employees | 5,000 |
| Annual budget | £1.2 billion |
| Parent department | Ministry of Defence |
| Parent agency | Defence Logistics Organisation |
| Website | Official website (archived) |
Formally a component of the Defence Logistics Organisation, the Agency brigaded together elements of the Defence Procurement Agency, the DLO and operational support elements within the three military Front Line Commands.
On 31 March 2007 the Agency was subsumed into Defence Equipment & Support, a new organisation bringing together the DPA and DLO, as the Information Systems & Services (ISS) cluster within that organisation.