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Defence Market Drivers

Recognising the changing security challenges facing the UK and its armed forces in the 21^st century, the UK MOD’s 2003 white paper, 'Delivering Security in a Changing World', proposed a set of recommendations as how to best transform the UK military to meet the new threats it summarised as “international terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and weak and failing states”.

The paper’s recommendations culminated in three main transformational themes:

• Effectiveness – improving the effectiveness of systems rather than the number of systems involved
• Technology – exploiting the latest technology to enhance capability, improve the flow of accurate information, and the ability to be responsive to new threats as identified
• Efficiency – ensuring that the procurement of future capability, and its integration with existing legacy systems, is done in a more streamline and cost-effective way, to enable the MOD to fund simultaneous theatres of operation.

Outlined below are some of the key initiatives already underway to support these transformation themes and under which VEGA is working to support its clients:

Network Enabled Capability (NEC)

VEGA is a recognised key supplier to the UK MOD, helping define the most effective capability effect and ensure that this is acquired, integrated and deployed with maximum efficiency, and delivers the through-life operational benefits for which it was intended.

Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS)

VEGA has a long-established record in supporting the capability acquisition lifecycle of the UK MOD, and is currently working alongside the public sector and industry in developing new technology that could support military capability.

Defence Acquisition Change Programme (DACP)

VEGA has three decades' experience in supporting the procurement and integration of military capability, and manages several through-life support contracts and transformational programmes with Integrated Project Teams across the breadth of Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S).

UK National Security Strategy

In early 2008, the UK Government published the country’s first National Security Strategy. The strategy, for the first time, considered the security challenges posed by a full remit of threats facing the UK, including terrorism (home and abroad), nuclear attack, natural disasters, such as extreme weather and flooding, international crime and cyber attacks. In June 2009 the Strategy was updated and complemented by a national Cyber Security Strategy.