General niteworks brief to industry

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Niteworks Brief

May 2014

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What is Niteworks?

Niteworks is an MOD and Industry Partnership

It is designed to conduct multi-industry experiments and

decision support activities, before the competitive process

starts

It benefits from a unique intellectual property model

It aims to benefit both the MOD and Industry

It is considered part of the MOD



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Fully Inclusive MOD and Industry Collaboration

12 industry partners

drawn from the

major defence

providers

MOD unified

customer

114 associate

members comprising

small & medium

sized enterprises

(SMEs), specialists,

academia and

consulting

companies

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Strategic role of Niteworks

The Niteworks partnership exists to provide practical, impartial responses

to complex defence problems by combining evidence, experience and

innovation from across the whole defence enterprise, including MOD,

Dstl, industry and academia, in an agile and timely fashion

To provide support to MOD:

Decision making for:

– Defence Business, Contingency, and Military Operations

Capability planning

Capability-based acquisition

Enterprise design and transformation




Delivery

Generating the

solution

Divergence[Exploring the question, testing the

problem]

Convergence

[Examining what’s possible, shaping

the requirement]

Divergence[Exploring the supply side,

choosing the partner]

Convergence[Bringing the solution together,

Delivering the integrated

components]

[Ideally Capability across the DLoDs, through time]

Warfighting x-DLoD

Exploring and

defining the

problem space

Decision Support

Robust requirement,

Qualified and costed

Where does Niteworks fit?

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Start-up

Assurance

Technical support

Delivery

Director

MOD

Sponsor

“The

Question”

“Execution”

Request

Supply

Supply

Supply

Partners

Associates

Delivery

How does Niteworks work?

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C4ISR & Cyber

Air Platforms

& Test, Simulation and

Training Programme

Communications,

Infrastructure

& ServicesIntelligence

Non-Aligned

Current PlannedNiteworks Portfolio May 2014

CD Cbt Experimentation Yr 2

UAS Programme Support

DSA IAEP Phase 2

C4ISR

Interoperability

C-IED Contingent Capability

Future COEFOR CCD

Command Change Programme

Support Air, Army, Navy & Joint

Command PSFSupport

- Army DG Cap

- Navy PSF

JFIG Innovation

Dstl OSINT CCD Exploitation 2

Open Source Intelligence

CCD Phase 3

JIOC Dev Sp

ACDS (Log Ops) DS

Support to CCEB

CD CSS Sustainment

UW BLOS Comms

JACKDAW C2IT Prog Dev

A400M In-Service Support

& TAA

Defence Operational

Training Capability (Air)

DOTC (X)

Defence Test & Evaluation

Capability

Common Defensive Aids

Suite Programme

Joint BM Trng

Decisive Action Training Env

Nimrod LFE

HRMS Study

LE TacCIS Blueprint

Phase 2

LE TacCIS PMO Support

Brockworks 4

Support to OP IS

NTA Technical

Framework 3

Support to DE&S CIO IA

C4IDC 14/15

DOTC (A) Battlefield Helo

Exportability 2

Bde HQ C2 A&E

Army Brigade CONEMP

Brockworks 5

CIPHER

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Niteworks Pipeline Breakdown May 2014

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50

Joint

Air

Land

Maritime

Centre

Number of Projects

Do

mia

n

Start Up: Potential

Start Up: Identified

Start Up: Development

Start Up: Transition

Initiation

Execution

Completing

Completed in Last 12Months




Niteworks

OrganisationFebruary 2014

Senior Military Advisor

& Military Adviser (Air)

Wg Cdr Edd Watkin

Portfolio Manager

Michael James

MOD Niteworks Team

Leader

Paul Lowe

Battlespace Context

Manager

Rob Baldock

Chief Scientist

Andy Stocks

Chief Analyst

Chris Jordan

Chief Systems

Engineer

Nick Frall

Knowledge &

Benefits Manager

Nigel Burke/ Mark

Schofield

Partnering

Coordinator

Christine Bewley

Technical Director

Prof Mike Wilkinson

Head of

Commercial/Partnering

Samantha Page

Head of Finance

Keith Hurst

Snr Commercial/

Procurement Officer

Tricia Borgnis

Commercial

Administrator

Abarna Sanjeev

Commercial,

Procurement &

Programme Manager

James Shiplee

IT Manager

Dominic

Clover- Lambert

Delivery Director

Rick Bounsall

Managing Director

Simon Jewell

Dstl/Niteworks

Liaison

Phil Taylor

Stakeholder

Managers

2 FTE

Deputy

Delivery Director

Paul Bradley

IPT Project

Coordinator

Dave Pilbeam

MOD Niteworks

Manager

George King

Communications

Manager

Jessie-May Brown

Military Advisor

(Mar)

TBD

Operations

Manager

Tom Partridge

Chief Systems

Architect

Dave Evans

Leadership Team

Tac C4ISR

Al Campbell

Cyber

Nigel Jackson

TEST & Air

Platforms

Peter Waring

Project Funded

Project Support

Manager

Jim Sanderson

Project Support

Manager

Debbie Kempton

Project Support

Manager

Sam Earner

Project Support

Manager

Gavin Templeton

Military Advisor

(Land)

Major Mike Baxter

Project Accountant

Paul Eason

Intelligence

Steven Harland

Accounts Payable

Sally Neems

Finance Assistant

Jean Mattin

Resourcing

Coordinator

Louise Barltrop

MOD Team




BAE Systems

EADS

Finmeccanica

GDUK

HP

LMUK

Logica

MBDA

NGMS

QinetiQ

Raytheon

Thales

Associates

Suppliers

3SDL Abedas

Actica Consulting Agile Ideas

Altran Praxis Atkins

ATOS Origin IT Services Arke

Aviation Requirements Bill Robins

BMT Hi-Q Sigma BOEING DEFENCE UK LTD

Burchelli Consulting C3IA Solutions

Cap Gemini UK Concinitas

Cranfield University Cuerden Consulting

Decision Analysis Services Deloitte MCS

Dytecna E2E Services

ELS Emerging Technology

Envitia Etchells Consulting

Ernst and Young Fujitsu Services

Glue Reply Harmonic

Helios Helyx

IMES Integrate Systems Engineering

Inzpire J C Sys

JA Consulting JRA Aerospace

Kaplan IT KNK

L-3 LSC

Magna Parva Model Futures

MooD International Mott Macdonald

Newman and Spurr Nexor

NRB Persides

Polaris Consulting Purple Secure Systems

PWC R2B2

RED Scientific RJD Technology

Roke Manor Safetech Engineering

Saab SAIC

SCS SEA

Simutec Soteria Consulting

Sula Systems Steria

SVGC SyntheSys

Systematic Talascend

Telaugos Solutions Torchlight

TRTDC Triad

Ultra Vedette

Warner McCall

Industrial Participation

Associate contracts

(of which SMEs c. 52% by spend)

2007 to Jan 2013




Resourcing – Annual Comparison

Resourcing – Partnership Spread (12 mths to 31 Oct)Partners comprise 10.6% of Partnership entities (at 31 Oct), but:+ make 21% of applications+ are appointed to 16% of all

roles+ 10/12 (83%) Partners made

at least one application (year to 31 Oct)

+ All Partners who have made applications have won at least one role

440 total roles to end

Oct 2013 vs 322 to end

Oct 2012

197 competed roles to

end Oct 2013 vs 137 to

end Oct 2012




Project Sponsor Funding

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Questions