Defence

Transformative digital support to defence business operations

Supporting our Armed Forces with information led wider business transformation

The importance of simplifying and automating processes across the spectrum of defence business cannot be underestimated.

Sopra Steria aims to lead the technology and business process contribution to the tangible modernisation of defence capabilities and outputs. More intuitive, coherent and cohesive processes and services within defence Business will allow personnel to operate more efficiently and effectively and enable reinvestment of the benefits in critical front-line capabilities.

Sopra Steria puts your mission first

We begin by analysing your mission. No matter what challenges you’re facing, we leverage leading market and customer intelligence to deliver solutions that drive innovation and digital transformation for defence business.

We never force a single approach to fit your challenge. With our large network of partners, we can be entirely vendor-agnostic and use our deep knowledge of defence to create the right solution for you.

What’s more, our design, development, service management and support of secure defence information systems and services are complemented by transformational business and IT consulting services and solutions, which is why we have a first-class reputation for the management of IT infrastructure and digital services in the UK’s most secure environments.

Our offerings

Expertise to deliver information advantage in the battlespace

We need a fighting force fit for the challenges of the 21st century, prepared to react at pace and maintain power projection. We employ a significant number of ex-service and security-cleared personnel who understand the issues that the Armed Forces face in theatre, ensuring we deliver on the objectives that will achieve your mission.

Expert intelligence

Our advanced approach means that we specialise in a full spectrum of digital solutions, including cloud migration, cyber and digital security, data analytics and robotics.

Secure systems are our speciality

The fields in which we operate include OSINT (Open Source Intelligence), data analytics, real-time situational awareness (ISR: Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, and ISTAR: Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance), digital innovation, cyber security and command and control (C2 and C4). Our capabilities are applicable across Strategic Command, including J1, J2, J3, J4, J6 and J7.

Digital Enablers

AI and Automation

Application Management

Business Process Services

Cloud

Cyber

Data and Analytics

Infrastructure Management

Innovation

Mobility

Systems Integration

Workplace Transformation

Our Team

We’re proud to be part of the Armed Forces Community. Many of our team are veterans and we enjoy getting involved with initiatives that support the community, with volunteering and fundraising and an Armed Forces Network for employees, to provide fellowship for those who have experienced military life. As an Armed Forces Covenant signatory, we are proud to have been awarded Silver status under the Employer Recognition Scheme, which demonstrates our ongoing commitment to supporting and engaging with our Armed Forces community.

Sue-Ellen Wright, Managing Director of our Aerospace, Defence and Security Division; with Ex-Forces members of her Management Team.

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Client Stories

Transforming services for the Armed Forces community

SSCL, part of the Sopra Steria group, recently won a large Ministry of Defence contract to provide critical workforce services to Armed Forces personnel. The Future Service Delivery Contract aims to fundamentally transform services for military staff, reservists and veterans, by introducing new digital technologies to improve their experience as service users.

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Systems integration for logistics

We were the first company to develop a tri-service inventory management system. Management of the Joint Deployed Inventory for the Ministry of Defence replaces the three services’ separate stores management systems with a single inventory management information system capability.

Security through biometrics

Our Biometrics Capture and Identity System uses fingerprint and iris recognition to make positive identifications and is an important tool in supporting deployed Forces.

Secure communications

Our innovative and resilient military information management solutions include a secure Electronic Messaging Service for the Ministry of Defence. This processes 2,000,000 messages every month, manages an e-mail service with more than 380,000 users and tracks the delivery time of all messages.

Woman working on computer and managing email services

Digital solutions for housing management

The Ministry of Defence’s housing management system administering tri-service families’ accommodation, including the online housing application e-form, is provided by Sopra Steria. Our solution supports the allocation of over 45,000 houses to service families and the management of around 20,000 move-in and move-out appointments per year as families transfer between geographic locations throughout the UK.

Thought Leadership

Financial Conduct Authority Selects Sopra Steria for Major Application Maintenance Contract

Nov 20, 2018, 14:00 PM

Title* : Financial Conduct Authority Selects Sopra Steria for Major Application Maintenance Contract

Sopra Steria is today announcing a new engagement which will see it provide application maintenance services across all the major systems at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). This is the latest major contract between the organisations, which follows the company’s development and launch of the Market Data Processor (MDP) in January 2018. The MDP, built to service requirements of the new MiFID II regulation, is one of the most industry-critical regulatory cloud platforms ever built in the UK and since going live, has already securely handled over 6 billion transactions as of 1 October 2018, averaging over 31 million transactions per day.

Application Maintenance will enable new technology capabilities

The three-year contract, which Sopra Steria secured following a competitive tender, significantly extends the scope of work the company’s support teams have been providing to the FCA for over 10 years. As the FCA’s partner for application maintenance services Sopra Steria will support the FCA in their transition from traditional hosted services into cloud-hosted services. The maintenance services, which are planned to commence in early 2019, will be provided from Sopra Steria’s UK and India locations and bring into scope an extended range of capabilities and skills such as big data, UX and middleware as well as integration with Salesforce and Oracle technologies.

Extending the partnership

The new engagement arrives following the roll-out, earlier this year, of the MDP which was developed to enable the FCA to capture, validate, store and track millions of financial transactions conducted in the UK every day, collecting reporting activity required by new MiFID II regulation. The MDP marked the first time a regulator has used a cloud-based application to manage widespread regulatory filings. The platform went live on 3rd January 2018, the date when MiFID II regulations came in to effect.

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Blogs

Inspiring the next generation of scientists, engineers and tech experts at the Cheltenham Science Festival 2022

Jun 22, 2022

Our team enjoyed the opportunity to engage with the next generation of scientists and engineers, experimenting with tech and exploring careers within the exciting worlds of cyber, digital and tech.

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security teams raise £16,000 for Walking With The Wounded

Jun 8, 2022 | Joanne Johnson

On Saturday 14 May, 8 teams from our ADS business laced up their walking boots to fundraise for ‘Walking with the Wounded’.

We all stand to benefit from work cultures that help military-leavers to thrive

Jun 25, 2021 | Sue-Ellen Wright

This Armed Forces Day (26 June), Sue-Ellen Wright, Managing Director of Aerospace, Defence and Security at Sopra Steria, shares an insight into her journey from military to civilian life, tips for those making the leap and some advice for employers about how to attract veterans and support them to thrive.

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