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BAE Systems launches Mission Advantage

BAE Systems is launching Mission Advantage, a new technology partner programme that facilitates collaboration between BAE Systems’ Intelligence & Security sector and companies in the programme, to deliver cutting-edge technologies to accelerate mission readiness.

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Through the Mission Advantage programme, Intelligence & Security will work with companies and organisations that align to their customers’ digital modernisation objectives, to integrate and deliver advanced mission engineering, or offer disruptive, dual-use commercial, technologies that impact national security missions.

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“Together with our partners, we’re unlocking and creating synergies that provide our customers a significant technological edge in support of national security,” said Daniel Perkins, director, strategy & technology partnerships, for Intelligence & Security. “This programme will allow us to respond faster to evolving customer requirements and to address their most complex national security challenges.”

Mission Advantage will deliver a number of benefits to partner companies including driving business growth and acceleration through collaboration, mentorship opportunities, scalablity and access to mission critical customer opportunities. It will also allow Intelligence & Security to advance industry standards as a leading systems integrator by providing expanded capabilities in the areas of advanced radar, cybersecurity, digital engineering, and modeling and simulation to current and future customers.

BAE Systems provides expert systems engineering, integration and sustainment services, as well as advanced electronics, intelligence, security and IT solutions and support services to enhance mission effectiveness. These solutions are deployed across the US Department of Defense (DoD) and federal civilian agency platforms and networks in land, air, sea, space and cyber domains.

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