RUSI Land Warfare Conference 2024

Babcock is an international defence, aerospace and security company providing support and product solutions to enhance our customers’ defence capabilities and critical assets.

We deliver complex platform build and systems integration across multiple domains.  Our Through Life Equipment Support includes fleet management and maintenance of over 30,000 British Army vehicles.  Babcock Training delivers over 758,000 trainings days and 5,000 apprenticeships annually for the British Army covering both individual and collective training.

Babcock is playing a critical role in ensuring that the British Army is ready to fight and win wars on land.  Now more than ever, what we do matters, as we play our part in building a safe and secure world, together.

Helsing is a new type of defence company, providing cutting-edge software and artificial intelligence to protect our democracies. The world-leading team of engineers achieves significant capability gains from in-service platforms, using edge data-processing to enhance combat functions and decision-making. This allows armed forces to operate differently under the demands of software defined warfare, such as AI-enabled and EW-hardened drones in Ukraine.

Helsing is Europe's largest defence Al company, based in London, alongside businesses in Germany and France, and ongoing support to Ukraine. That means we have access to a European talent pool, while servicing countries' specific sovereign requirements. We partner with industry leaders and fund our own research, undertaking capability development at the speed and scale of software development cycles.

Thales is a global technology leader in the Defence & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Cybersecurity & Digital identity domains. In 2023, the company generated revenues of €18.4 billion with 77,000 employees in 68 countries. With its 30,000 engineers and researchers, Thales has a unique capability to design, develop and deploy equipment, systems and services that meet the most complex security requirements. Thales has an exceptional international footprint, working with customers and local partners around the world. Thales in the UK is a team of over 7,000 experts, including 4,500 highly skilled engineers, located across 16 sites.

Anduril Industries is a defence technology company with the mission to transform allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Anduril utilises advancements including AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, optics and automation to solve complex national security challenges.

Anduril’s products are software defined and hardware enabled. Unlike traditional defence contractors who focus primarily on hardware, Anduril’s core system is the interoperable Lattice software platform, which enables a variety of autonomous capabilities across Anduril’s family of systems.

At BAE Systems, we provide some of the world's most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions. We employ a skilled workforce of 90,500 people in more than 40 countries.

Our munitions business is proud to equip the British Armed Forces and international customers with a range of products and services. Our munitions have been proven in every possible environment, over many decades, with our specialist engineers working in partnership with our customers, to continually make performance improvements.  

We have recently entered in to a new 15-year contract with the UK Ministry of Defence, representing our enduring partnership with the UK armed forces, particularly the British Army.

Capita is a leading provider of business process services, driven by data, technology and people. Every day our 52,000 colleagues help millions of people, by delivering innovative, digitally enabled solutions to transform and simplify the connections between government and citizens, businesses and customers. We partner with our clients and provide the insight and cutting-edge technologies that give time back, allowing them to focus on what they do best, and making people’s lives easier and simpler.

L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor for the global aerospace and defence industry. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our 46,000 employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the air, land, sea, space and cyber domains.

From 14 UK sites with over 1,000 employees, L3Harris has been delivering defence and aerospace innovation in the UK for more than 100 years. L3Harris’ leading-edge capabilities span the electromagnetic spectrum, from tactical communications and datalinks to electronic warfare, space avionics and satellite systems. These end-to-end solutions support forces to defend against threats, maintain situational awareness and achieve spectrum dominance.

Lockheed Martin is a global defence technology company driving innovation and advancing scientific discovery with over 110 years of experience in defence and security. Our all-domain mission solutions and 21st Century Security vision accelerate the delivery of transformative technologies to ensure those we serve always stay ahead of ready.  Of the 122,000 employees worldwide, 1,500 are based in the UK, providing systems engineering, software development, complex program management, cyber, supply chain solutions and logistics, and training and simulation technologies for UK Armed Forces, Government Security, Civil and Commercial markets.

Leonardo is amongst the top ten global players in Aerospace, Defence and Security, with 8,000 highly skilled people across 8 sites in the UK, and 50,000 employees worldwide. The company has a strong industrial footprint in the UK, Italy, US and Poland and a wide presence internationally.  Leonardo designs, develops and manufactures a full range of capability and services across multi-mission rotary and fixed-wing aircraft, uncrewed platforms, systems and sensors, providing integrated solutions and support for customers in the air, land, maritime, space and cyber/electromagnetic domains. Our programme of digital transformation, including adoption of the secure cloud, is enabling us to get high-tech, new equipment faster into the hands of the UK’s Armed Forces and its allies and, in future, to offer a range of data-driven products and services.

MBDA is a world-leader in complex weapons helping defend the sovereignty of the UK and its allies. It’s the only European defence group capable of designing and manufacturing complex weapons to meet all operational requirements.

Preferred Supplier for complex weapons, MBDA is proud to support the Land Industrial Strategy and cooperate with the Army to provide solutions for Future Soldier, “4+1” priorities and to protect the UK’s freedom of action and operational advantage. 

Countering the threats of today and tomorrow demands innovation. MBDA understands this challenge, excelling in working jointly with our Armed Forces to deliver spirally developed integrated effectors.

Moog is a global designer, manufacturer, and integrator of precision motion control and stabilisation products, associated electronics, and systems for mission critical defence applications. We offer high-performance products and systems across air, land, sea, and space platforms. Our turreted weapon systems, c-UAS, fast ammunition handling, precise missile steering, weapon stores management systems (SMS), vehicle conversions and upgrades, near silent actuation for naval systems, and sustainment services are recognised internationally.

QinetiQ is an integrated global defence and security company focused on mission-led innovation. Our purpose is protecting lives by serving the national security interests of our customers. We employ more than 8,000 highly-skilled people, committed to creating new ways of testing technologies, systems, and processes to make sure they meet operational needs; and enabling customers to deploy new and enhanced capabilities with the assurance they will deliver the performance required.

Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) is a defence engineering company based in the UK. We design, manufacture and support military vehicles used by the British Army and international customers.

RBSL was launched in July 2019 as a new, UK-based and independent joint venture business between BAE Systems and German defence firm, Rheinmetall. RBSL has a proud heritage, having designed and delivered many of the Army’s armoured vehicle fleets under different business names. We have a skilled workforce of more than 750 employees, including 350 engineers, across our UK sites in Telford, Dorset, Bristol, and near Newcastle. We also have a thriving Early Careers community made up of apprentices and graduates.