Our strategy
Our purpose, to create a safe and secure world, together, informs all that we do.
We provide a range of products and service solutions to enhance our customers’ defence capabilities and critical assets. Our business model is underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration and engineering, infrastructure management and specialist training. We help our customers around the world to cost effectively improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets.
We offer customers deeply pragmatic and integrated solutions, delivered in dynamic collaboration through committed partnerships. Products informed by service and services informed by product, resulting in assets that work, and work hard, year after year. Maximising asset value and utility, with end-to-end vision.
Our strategy comprises four main areas:
Leverage our technical capability
Grow our UK business through optimising our existing position and entering selective new programmes
Grow our international business through expanding activity in our focus countries, direct exports and strategic partnerships
Develop our people and capabilities
Build a diverse and resilient workforce
Grow our engineering and technical capabilities
Develop skills through the Â鶹Éçʼþ Academy and national and industry initiatives
Progress our early careers and returners programmes
Build strategic partnerships
Work with our customers to deliver critical solutions
Develop innovative solutions to solve complex customer challenges
Work with industry partners to enter new markets and programmes
Being a responsible corporate citizen
Progress our six sustainability priorities
Further develop sustainability capability within the business
Ensure effective governance and oversight processes
Communicate the vital role of defence and national security
Focused on delivering value for all our stakeholders
Improved outcomes for our customers
A better place to work
Returns for our shareholders
Our growth strategy
We have a sustainable growth strategy across our business:
£10.4 billion contract backlog.
Growing opportunity set across all sectors, addressed by:
Leveraging our technical capabilities to create incremental and adjacent opportunities.
Developing our people and capabilities.
New strategic partnerships and collaborations.
Disciplined and targeted investment.
UK
Optimise position
New programmes & markets
International
Expansion in focus countries
Direct exports
Strategic partnerships
Managing commercial and technical risk
What we do is complex. We’re a business that delivers a wide range of programmes with
interdependencies across our partnerships, our supply chain and our customers.
Our average programme length is five years, but some are decades-long, spanning multiple governments, geopolitical changes and unforeseen economic challenges.
Key themes of our operation and business delivery
People
People deliver through integrated cross-functional teams
Enabled, accountable and highly competent workforce
Process
Consistent end-to-end lifecycle management, supported by mature governance
Agile and integrated ways of working
Controls
Proportionate controls delivering predictable outcomes
Enabling systems and technology
