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Airbus Group (www.airbus-group.com) is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2013, the Group – comprising Airbus, Airbus Defence and Space and Airbus Helicopters - generated revenues of £50.3 billion (XRT €1.18) and employed a workforce of around 144,000.  This includes a 17,000-strong British workforce and a UK turnover of close to £2.5 billion, making the Group a major contributor to the UK economy.

The Group builds on a proud 100-year British heritage united under a common brand.  Airbus designs and builds its aircraft wings in the UK.  Airbus Defence and Space is the UK’s largest space company; the biggest supplier of large aircraft to the RAF and a world-leader in cyber security.  As Britain’s civil helicopter hub, Airbus Helicopters holds 55% of the UK’s offshore oil and gas helicopter market and is a key supplier to the Ministry of Defence.

Airbus Group’s 450 apprentices, collaborations with more than 20 British universities and annual spend of £500M in UK R&D make it a champion of UK innovation and skills.

BN Security & Defence provide protected & ruggedised bespoke mobile solutions with specialist functionality, technical excellence, longevity, reliability and operability. Cutting-edge communications and data management fused with secure vehicles enable government, military, police and emergency organisations to operate effectively in the contemporary digital security & defence environment.

Our vehicles provide enhanced decision support by managing & integrating live data. 4K broadcast-quality imagery provides enhanced surveillance and intelligence gathering capabilities, with leading-edge software applications ensuring rapid information fusion. Our systems feature smart bandwidth optimisation, ensuring critical information transmission with Social Media monitoring options. Tailored communications solutions maintain operational integrity in protected vehicles, preserving automotive mobility and survivability. Operating from inner-city sites to rural environments and withstanding extreme weather conditions under riot conditions, hostile territories and rough terrains.

With a host of technical and operational benefits, BN Security & Defence deliver the functionality your application requires, built to the highest of standards.

We develop breakthrough products and systems, and address technology critical issues for our clients worldwide. Established over 50 years ago, we employ a team of more than 400 engineers, designers and scientists on our sites in Cambridge UK, Boston MA and Singapore.

We provide a full system development capability from technology consultancy, proof-of-concept demonstration and system design, through to manufacture and support of deployable equipment for our Defence and Security clients.

We have world leading skills in security, sensing, location and wireless technology, covering short-range radar systems, optical sensing systems for surveillance, CBRNE and authentication applications, complex data fusion; global, regional and local positioning systems as well as wireless system design for communication, surveillance and Force Protection.

Our skills are both broad and deep across a range of scientific and engineering disciplines including product design, user-centred design, simulation and algorithm design, low power electronics, system validation and programme management.

The E-T-A group of companies, which was founded in 1948, manufacturers a wide range of circuit breakers for component, equipment and systems protection. E-T-A high performance circuit breakers are specially designed for use in hostile environments and technically challenging applications where size and weight considerations should not be allowed to compromise optimum performance. These types encompass a range of current ratings from 0.1amp to 500 amps and are widely specified to protect the electrical systems of aircraft (fixed wing and helicopters, military and civil), ground equipment, hovercraft, fighting and support vehicles, pleasure and work boats, defence systems and many industrial installations with rigid performance and environmental requirements. Major approvals/listings include CAA (A1 Primary Company and Component Approval), fighting vehicle numbers, DefStan 59-59, UL 1500 (explosion tested), Panavia. ISO9000.

Exensor Technology Limited have designed and manufactured equipment for military applications since the mid 1980s and have continuously provided Post Design Services, In Service Support and Surveillance System to the United Kingdom MoD and its allies throughout this period. 

Exensor Group head offices are located in Sweden with facilities in the UK, Germany and France. The UK facility near Basingstoke is responsible for providing support to UK MOD contracts and is Exensor Group’s only production and a manufacture facility.  Due to the high level of technical expertise and engineering offered by the UK everything Exensor delivers to its customers throughout the world is built in and delivered from Exensor Technology UK, Basingstoke.  

Frequentis is an international supplier of communication and information systems in two business segments:

Air traffic management (civil and military) and public safety & transport (police, fire, ambulance, rail, maritime);

Frequentis offers individual solutions to support Network Enabled Operations and leverage mission effectiveness. Our advanced communication, network and information services enable superior collaboration as well as efficient decision making.

As a leading provider of integrated control centre solutions, we commit ourselves to best usability, high reliability, great scalability as well as to a maximum of cost-effectiveness. We guide today’s voice and data communication systems towards a service-oriented future where – concurrent with a shift to a “Need to Share” paradigm – secure information sharing is essential.

Frequentis supplies individual solutions for joint and combined capabilities, especially for the following market segments:

• Military Air Traffic Management
• Command and Control
• Tactical Networks
• Civil-Military Cooperation, including Border and National Security
• Surveillance and Reconnaissance

Harris Defence Limited is a wholly owned, UK based subsidiary of Harris Corporation

Harris provides mission-critical solutions to connect, inform and protect the world.  Harris is a proven leader in tactical communications, geospatial systems and services, air traffice management, avionics, electric warfare, space and intelligence.

Harris delivers its innovative solutions through it four business segments: Communication Systems, Space and Intelligence Systems, Electronics Systems and Critical Networks.

Harris Defence Limited is part of Communication Systems and is the supplier of VHF and UHF radios and associated networking capability for BOWMAN, the UK MoD's tactical command and control system, providing the wireless infrastructure for the UK battlefield digitisation programme. The same capabilities are exported to government customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

HeliMedia is a leading global specialist, delivering certified Intelligence, Surveillance and Communications (ISC) equipment, consultancy and support internationally. With its global network of suppliers and partners, HeliMedia brings together a unique blend of best of breed technologies to deliver fully operational, future-proof solutions.

UK Designers and manufacturers of the award winning fastlane turnstiles and door detective anti-tailgating products.

Landguard Systems designs and manufactures high performance radio systems for specialist applications.

We Are Leidos

A FORTUNE 500® company that brings a mix of innovative technology and sector expertise to customers in national security, engineering, and health markets.  Our approach is holistic, looking at all the interconnected complexities of a problem and sharing knowledge across disciplines. Our view of data is analytic, finding unexpected meaning and game-changing insight in numbers. Yet our focus is always on making the real world better.

M & G Technology has been established for 16 years and is a leading specialist designer, manufacturer and supplier of video and audio communications products for industrial, commercial, security, law enforcement and emergency services applications.

Typical of the more specialised products and available to approved government and law enforcement agencies - is the 'Alfa Series' AD I/S audio digital pulse outburst transmission system, for the pick-up and packet transmission of digital audio in radio surveillance environments.

Oxley Group is a leading designer and manufacturer of electronic and electro-optic systems and components for defence and aerospace markets across the world. Established in 1942 and based in Cumbria UK and Connecticut, USA.

Oxley is renowned for an innovative and expert approach to new product design, the development of technology and total solutions delivery.  The core product range includes; LED lighting, night vision solutions, EMI filters and a range of components.  Oxley products are widely in use across worldwide defence platforms to enhance the capability of aircraft, vehicles, submarines, ships and shelters. Oxley customers include Boeing, Saab, Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems.