Defence Market Drivers
Recognising the changing security challenges facing the UK and
its armed forces in the 21st 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.