Defence and security

The world’s biggest economic, social, environmental and governance challenges will only be more acute once the pandemic subsides or ends. So, the UN Sustainable Development Goals will need even greater focus.

By building the case for long-term change, learning fast and designing their own ‘new normal’, aerospace and defence organisations can take control of the current situation and emerge stronger as a result.

COVID-19 is creating many supply chain challenges for aerospace and defence organisations and to combat these, leaders need to set a long-term strategic supply chain vision.

The NCA leads the fight against serious and organised crime like financial crime, drug smuggling, human trafficking and child exploitation in the UK. It operates round the clock. So it’s essential it can carry on functioning in an emergency, whether it’s a cyber-attack or IT crash, a fire or a pandemic like COVID-19.

The UK Government is getting better at innovating in defence and security, but there are opportunities to do much more to implement innovation at pace.

Taking an agile approach, we provided our consortium partners with business case development, requirements gathering, systems engineering and roadmap development, all with the goal of plotting the fastest way to achieve a minimum viable product for the quantum sensor.

As more children around the world come online, and as the technology landscape evolves, we now, more than ever, need a forum for collaboration and action.

Tim Devine, technology expert, and Kate Robertson, defence and security expert at PA Consulting, discuss how fusion can help the UK’s public sector become more innovative.