Defence and Security

Today’s political, military and technology landscape puts greater emphasis than ever before on the efficiency and capability of defence organisations. It requires a more flexible, integrated and network-centric approach to defence: not just in the field, but across the spectrum of criminal justice, national and international security.

IBM works in partnership with the MoD to help respond to these challenges, applying commercial best practice, industry standard technologies, and decades of experience in the defence sector. Our capabilities include:

• World-leading information management solutions: ensuring that data is secure, credible, useful and available to the people who need it, when they need it.
• Shared services strategy, technology and infrastructure: standardising, re-engineering and consolidating vital processes such as HR and payroll to improve efficiency, effectiveness and cost control.
• Enterprise and asset management solutions: optimising logistics in complex defence supply chain scenarios.
• High performance computing environments: powering research and development for new defence products, services and technologies.
• Border management: information management systems (such as ID and passport control) that play a key role in linking the civilian and non-civilian aspects of defence and security into a seamless whole.

IBM has worked with the MoD for more than 50 years. Highlights of our work in defence include the RAF LITS system, which we have run for some 15 years; the successful delivery of the UK’s state-of-the-art air surveillance and interceptor command-and-control system, which won the 2007 MCA Management award in the Technology category; and co-founding the International Technology Alliance to promote research and technology innovation in defence and security.