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Founded in 2000, 4C Strategies helps organisations to: analyse and articulate their capability development requirements; visualise a training progression; understand where they are on that journey, in particular benefitting from a transparent and auditable view of Training Risk an ensure best practiceis spread through near real time objective, evidence based, assessments and observations from training. Best known in the Military domain for our Exonaut ™ capability developmentand training and exercise management solutions used by NATO, the British Army and the Swedish Armed Forces. Using our single integrated platform, militarys can design, develop, deliver, evaluate and exploit exercises -  either as standalone activities or as part of an ongoing development programme. Whilst Exonaut™ is ideally suited to the management of exercise progressions and delivery of complex exercises, it has been developed to add equal value to the full range of individual and collective training activities.

The aerospace and defense industry is looking to acquire speed, flexibility and precision. As deregulation, globalization and military transformation create a new set of industry challenges, Accenture enables aerospace and defense companies to improve performance through our tailored solutions. We combine decades of experience in the aerospace and defense industry with extensive cross-industry solutions and IT skills to help clients become high performance businesses.

Accenture is one of the world’s leading organizations providing management consulting, technology and outsourcing services, with approximately 289,000 employees; offices and operations in more than 200 cities in 56 countries; and net revenues of $28.6 billion for fiscal 2013.

Our four growth platforms—Accenture Strategy, Accenture Digital, Accenture Technology, Accenture Operations—are the innovation engines through which we build world-class skills and capabilities; develop knowledge capital; and create, acquire and manage key assets central to the development of integrated services and solutions for our clients.

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.

ALTEN, the European leader in engineering and technology consulting, supports its customers’ development strategy with a focus on innovation, R&D activities and technological information systems. 

Active in over 24 countries; in the United Kingdom ALTEN Ltd currently provides consultancy services to premium customers engaged in the Automotive, Aerospace, Defence, Railway, Energy and IT sectors.

Thanks to our outstanding operational excellence and high technical capability, ALTEN Ltd has grown by over 280% in the past three years.

Appsecco is a specialist application security company that ‘gets’ web security and can advise our clients on the best route for their business or organisation rather than offer generic advice.

We provide simple solutions to problems and don’t confuse our clients with technicalities.

We understand that security is not always our client’s number one priority but they would still like to be secure.

We offer a range of solutions that let us attack their applications and servers — how attackers would — and then share what they need to do next.

We also guide and train their employees, partners, vendors on what role can they play in ensuring your online properties stay safe and secure..

ArQit is building the world's first global satellite quantum key distribution system.

Avanti Communications is a carriers’ carrier, selling wholesale data telecoms connectivity to service providers that use it to create networks for enterprise, carrier, government and consumer users. Avanti's network consists of:- two HTS satellites, HYLAS 1 and HYLAS 2; a multiband satellite ARTEMIS and two further satellites in construction, HYLAS 3 and 4, supported by an international fibre network connecting its gateways and data centres in multiple countries. Avanti has GEO satellite network spectrum filings in the ITU Master Register for Ka band at 33.5° West and 31.0° East and for Ka, Ku, S and L-band at 21.5° East. Avanti serves customers across EMEA.

Avanti Government Services (AGS) offers secure, reliable high-speed connectivity to four core sectors: Defence & Security; Government; Civil Contingency and Emergency Services. Avanti enhances critical communications and cost-effectively supports the most demanding data applications with secure gateways, steerable antennas and military bandwidths available.

Avascent is the leading strategy and management consulting firm specialising in the aerospace, defence and security sectors, as well as broader government-driven markets. Avascent supports corporate leaders and investors in the full spectrum of international growth, strategy development, business capture and M&A execution efforts.

A multi-channel service provider, decision engine and marketplace, with deep databases and integrated workflow tools that support action, the Aviation Week Network brings you the power to prevail in a challenging and fast-paced industry.

Our staff of more than 50 editors and analysts around the world delivers an unsurpassed portfolio of information products and services for all sectors of the aerospace and defense industry.

From award-winning publications to online analytical services, the Aviation Week Network provides intelligence that informs and enables the global aviation, aerospace and defense industry and provides professionals with a strategic business advantage.

Who we are

For more than a century, Babcock has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly-skilled engineering support.

Underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, infrastructure management and specialist training, we help customers around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets within our key market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation and Nuclear.

What we do

Engineering is in our DNA. Babcock provides skilled, bespoke engineering services which allow our customers to improve their own performance whilst reducing costs. We work in highly regulated environments managing complex assets for both defence and civil customers.

We maintain, upgrade, operate and manage expensive infrastructure and essential equipment for a range of government bodies and private sector customers in the UK and internationally. We provide them with better capability, reliability and availability of their critical assets, and in doing so provide significant cost savings.

We are a trusted partner who understands the critical role that our customers’ assets and infrastructure play in delivering their business; we share risk with them in delivering innovation and efficiency, and we share the benefits.

We have consistently built up our expertise and commercial positions across four key sectors: marine, land, aviation and nuclear. Each sector shares deep technical knowledge and expertise and - through infrastructure, assets, technology or regulation - high barriers to entry:

• Marine: Delivering complex through-life engineering services, technology, equipment, consultancy and training through unique owned and managed infrastructure to global defence and civil customers.
• Land: Providing critical fleet management and training for c. 80,000 customer-owned defence, emergency services, airport and commercial vehicles, engineering services and technical training worldwide.
• Aviation: Providing fixed and rotary wing technical training for all three armed services, equipment support, airbase management and operator-owned and customer-owned aircraft fleets across the globe.
• Cavendish Nuclear: Delivering major nuclear decommissioning programmes, critical training, operation support and new build programme management to both public and private customers.

How we do it

Babcock is a trusted partner who understands the critical role that its customers’ assets and infrastructure play in delivering their business, both in the UK and internationally. We share risk with them in delivering innovation and efficiency, and we share the benefits.

We continue to develop our specialist skills and capabilities in our four sectors, sharing expertise across the Group through three key capabilities:

• Technology

Babcock has built deep technical expertise with decades of experience; we understand risk and resilience and are able to deliver availability with innovation. We are equipment‑agnostic which enables us to work with any OEM to specify and support its products. We have the ability to identify and integrate technology into our through‑life support.

Click here to discover the breadth of Babcock's technological capability.

• Infrastructure

We have experience of operating and managing complex and critical infrastructure assets in highly regulated environments, from unique owned marine facilities, critical air and land fleets, nuclear licensed sites, naval, air and army bases, technical training sites to customer‑owned aircraft. 

• Training

Technical training is an integral part of our engineering offering. It is a fundamental and on-going requirement and a core part of our expertise. Driving technical training across the Group allows us to share innovation and successful methodology across sectors to ensure our customers make the best use of their critical resources.

Visit our website or download our key factsheet to learn more about Babcock.

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Our International Aerospace, Defence & Security Sector Group works as one team across our 26 office network and gives expert advice on all the specialist legal issues that arise across the Aerospace, Defence & Security sector.

As well as legal experience, many of our team has spent long periods of their careers working in-house within the industry. This gives us unrivalled experience of the industry's key commercial dynamics. We are also extremely active members of A|D|S, UK Intellect, the Society of Satellite Professionals International and the British Aeronautical Society.

What sets us apart? We are a technology focussed firm advising international commercial businesses. We invest in key issues affecting the sector, for example, we are leading industry activity in anti-bribery, cybersecurity and UAS.

Bird & Bird has practical experience of sector specific engineering, technology and industrial partnering and programme issues, security clearance, understanding of defence procurement realities, documentation, jargon and processes and an appreciation of the practical and broad political issues that operators in this sector face and which can shape dispute resolution strategies, when dealing with project partners and suppliers.   

A team recognised and ranked in all current key legal directories around the world

A business unit of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, Boeing Defence UK (BDUK) supports the Ministry of Defence and U.S. military programmes. BDUK continues to grow its business in the UK through the delivery of military capability, the development of UK-based expertise & technology and the generation of intellectual property. BDUK partners with UK suppliers to deliver improved operational capability and to meet evolving customer needs. Products and services include C-17, Support Chain Information Services (SCIS), Chinook and Apache helicopters, Poseidon P-8A, Through Life Customer Support (TLCS) programmes, the Boeing Portal (modeling, simulation, analysis and experimentation) and training (including synthetic air land training (DSALT), Chinook, C-17 & Apache). BDUK is a proud recipient of the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award for supporting veterans and their families.

Boyden is a leader in the executive and senior leadership talent market. 

We have three core areas of business which are Executive Search, Interim Management and Leadership Consulting. 

Boyden develops relationships and partnerships with businesses to understand their challenges and work with their leadership to overcome them. This ranges from strategic growth, transformation and change to turnaround situations. 

We take a holistic approach and want to understand each business we engage with and how we can best work with you. 

Bricolage offers bespoke IT consultancy services in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Text Analytics (TA) to the government, voluntary and private sectors. Our knowledge and experience helps us solve NLP and TA problems that others find difficult.

We specialise in:

• The extraction of data from richly formatted data such as PDF
• The extraction of data from tables, including financial data
• Building bespoke industry specific ontologies and taxonomies
• Developing software solutions for NLP problems
• Text Analytics
• Research design and analysis
• The use of operational and administrative data for research

62012 - Business and domestic software development
62020 - Information technology consultancy activities
62090 - Other information technology service activities
72200 - Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities

CDW is a leading multi-brand technology solutions provider across all verticals including Defence.  We help our clients achieve their goals by delivering integrated solutions and services that maximise their technology investment.

Charles Kendall Procurement utilises decades of experience in support of the supply chain for air, sea and ground forces, supplying high-quality certified spares, bespoke packages, consumables, engineering items and ground handling equipment at optimum value.

Check Point are engaged in developing, marketing and supporting software and combined hardware (appliance) and software products and subscriptions, by offering network security, data security and security management solutions for enterprise networks and service providers. Check Point operates in one operating and reportable segment and its revenues are mainly derived from the sales of its network and data security products, including licenses, related software updates, maintenance and subscriptions. Check Point sells its products worldwide primarily through multiple distribution channels ("channel partners"), including distributors, resellers, system integrators, Original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs") and Managed Security Service Providers ("MSPs").

Clarion Events’ portfolio of defence and security events are acknowledged as the world’s leaders where high level government officials and senior military personnel converge.  Leading global equipment and services providers meet to share ideas, discuss industry developments, conduct business, develop partnerships and network for future growth.  Whilst military systems and technology are at the core of the industry and the events, the sector is also diversifying and adapting to meet the changing needs of the world.