Our strategy and values

Our vision
To be the world’s leading provider of defence and security technology-based solutions and services.

How we will achieve it
Ensure we have outstanding people, facilities and technologies available to provide innovative, high-value solutions to our customers’ important problems.

Provide research, technical advice, technology solutions and services to customers in our core markets of defence and security, and transfer know-how and capability into important adjacent markets.

Group strategies
Strengthen our North American presence
Continue building our business in North America, delivering good organic growth supplemented by targeted acquisitions.

Maintain and build existing relationships
Build on our powerful UK defence franchise, growing our market share in technology insertion, advice and managed services, whilst robustly defending our market-leading position in MOD research.

Further penetrate established defence markets
Build valuable new market positions in selected EMEA markets outside the UK.

Apply our technologies to commercial markets
Take selected defence technologies into new markets, through direct exploitation, venturing and licensing.

Our values
We are always guided by our core values of care, integrity, teamwork, commitment and excellence.

Care – for the safety of everyone involved in our operations by working openly with customers, partners and suppliers. Encourage and enable our people to develop by providing support, rewards and recognition. Contribute positively in community and environmental issues.

Integrity of our services to customers by providing balanced objective and independent advice and being honest, trustworthy and professional in our dealings internally and externally.

Teamwork with customers, suppliers and colleagues by being responsive to changing needs and situations. Listening to others, respecting their opinions and being open to constructive feedback.

Commitment to success – to each other and to our customers by seizing opportunities and seeing things through to completion. Working openly with our partners and suppliers to achieve mutual success.

Excellence – taking pride in our work by always striving to find a better way of doing things, encouraging innovation and sharing best knowledge and practices.