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BAE SYSTEMS (BAES)
BAE Systems is an international company engaged in the development, delivery and support of advanced defence and aerospace systems in air, land, sea and in space domains. The company designs, manufactures and supports military aircraft, surface ships, submarines, fighting vehicles, radar, avionics, communications, electronics and guided weapon systems. It is a pioneer in technology with a heritage stretching back hundreds of years. It is at the forefront of innovation, working to develop the next generation of intelligent defence systems. BAE Systems has major operations across five continents and customers in some 130 countries. The company has more than 90,000 people and generates annual sales of approximately £12 billion through its wholly-owned and joint venture operations.
BAE Systems prime contracting capability combines key in-depth skills in systems, defence and aerospace, enabling it to manage the most complex high-level systems tasks and provide total solutions - a one-stop shop capability and service provision. BAE Systems designs, manufactures, and supports military aircraft, surface ships, submarines, space systems, radar, avionics, C4ISR, electronic systems, guided weapons and a range of other defence products, many of these with international partners. Key skills include systems integration, complex software and hardware development and advanced manufacturing.
The Advanced Technology Centre in BAE SYSTEMS is at the frontline in technology innovation, acquisition, development and insertion for BAE Systems and its joint venture organisations. The service offering of the ATC provides for the development and creation of future technology capability over a broad spectrum of disciplines. Its services, capabilities and resources are applied throughout the product lifecycle, supporting long term speculative research through to applied product development.
With an employee base of world-class scientists, technicians and researchers, the ATC has a proven history of delivering innovative technology and providing cutting edge solutions to the business. The ATC supports the future growth and technological positioning of BAE SYSTEMS through the instigation and pursuit of areas of key importance to future defence requirements. These activity programmes involve multi-disciplinary teams drawn from across the ATC and key business units. The programmes currently instigated cover areas such as Micro and Nano technologies, Autonomous Systems, Battlespace Information and Knowledge, BioFutures and Directed Energy Warfare.
The ATC recognises that investment in research and technology demands long term, close relationships with its customer base to ensure the effective development and transfer of technology into the business to provide sustainable competitive advantage and continuous revenue. The ATC has embraced technology service level agreements with key businesses to provide focus and continuity in technological development. The ATC has an established business network, developing relationships with key external parties including the UK MoD, European Space Agency, European Commission, Department of Trade and Industry, and selected academic institutions.
Contribution within the Consequence project:
BAE SYSTEMS will own Policy-Based Security for Crisis Management Test Bed (WP5) and enacts the following roles within the project:
· Requirements Capture: using contacts within the company, the UK MOD and other agencies, the BAE team will capture the basic organisational security requirements and policies suitable for the mock-emergency scenario. This will provide the material that will be used for developing an application scenario that is grounded in current policies and doctrine (WP5).
· Framework Contribution: the BAE team are interested in developing models and architectures of policies so that a common framework for exchanging policies between organisations can be achieved (WP1-3).
· Technology Development: the team will develop an application test bed to host the Consequence reference implementation software. It will also assess different ways in which ‘context parameters’ can be practically communicated within limited scenarios. An assessment of how enforcement mechanisms can be applied will also be done (WP5).
· Technology Evaluation: the test bed will be evaluated by the team to assess whether the functional requirements of the Consequence Reference Implementation are met (WP5).
Exploitation: the team will promote the results of the project to the rest of the company, showing how the technologies can be used to enhance existing products, generate ideas for new products and to increase business opportunities.
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