07 Aug 2008
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MDC - The UK Missile Defence Centre
Leveraging investment, resource, skills and technologies into the missile defence domain.
Overview
Launched by Minister for Defence Procurement Lord Bach in July 2003, the UK Missile Defence Centre is a UK government/ industry partnership, enabling both parties to leverage investment, resource, skills and technologies into the missile defence domain.
BAE Systems, through its Strategic Capability Solutions department, is the Lead Contractor for the UK Missile Defence Centre.
The UK MDC's objectives are to provide technical and scientific input to UK policy considerations, develop relationships between UK industry, the US Department of Defense (DoD) and industrial partners and support UK industry in the pursuit of commercial opportunities in the missile defence domain.
Key Facts
BAE Systems SCS holds the Lead contract for the UK MDC, valued in the region of GDP 3 million per year, to manage UK industrial interests in the Missile Defence Centre.
Partners on the programme include Dstl, BAE Systems Integrated Systems Technologies, Lockheed Martin UK, MBDA, QinetiQ and L3 Communications ASA.
BAE Systems SCS also supplies the Programme Manager to the UK MDC to ensure planned activities meet cost and performance targets.
Performance
- Jointly funded MoD/ industry partnership.
- Implements the Director General - Strategic Technology's UK industry research programme.
- The MDC model is under consideration for other future MoD projects.
- BAE Systems SCS were recently awarded a new Lead Contract until 2011.
- BAE Systems SCS enabled contracts worth GDP 16.5 million over the last five years to be placed with the UK MDC industry partners.
