Group Captain Bill Sanders leads the UK’s Requirements and Concepting team contribution to the tri-lateral Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP). He has served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force for 30 years; with an operational career that began on the Tornado F3 Air Defence Variant, before moving to the Typhoon FGR4 and in the process accumulating over 2,000 flight hours across the two types. He is a Qualified Weapons Instructor with a Test & Evaluation and capability acquisition background–specializing in sensors, data-links, and weapons integration. For the last 10 years he has worked exclusively in Combat Air capability acquisition and management in large multi-national programmes.