SAS has been working in partnership with the Ministry of Defence for nearly 20 years. SAS solutions are employed extensively across the MoD, from the Air, Land and Sea Pillars, through to the Executive Agencies and Central Staffs.

Today, the Ministry of Defence faces many challenges. Amongst these, is the requirement to provide a flexible, agile and formidable response anywhere in the world – supported by a logistical and communication infrastructure. All of this is required within ever shrinking budgets at every level. Hence, today’s MoD is faced with providing an ever more demanding capability at reduced cost.

SAS’ Intelligence Layer underpins the information needs of the MoD and assists key decision makers by covering all aspects of data extraction, transformation, transportation, storage and management. Key, amongst all of this, is the need for data quality analysis - whether this is the standardisation of names and addresses in a Human Resources or Payroll system, the verification of track mileages or the standardisation of flying hours across an aircraft fleet.

How SAS adds value:

• Data Access to Ministry of Defence Systems: The first stage of information delivery is that of data acquisition. To do this, it is imperative that there be minimum disruption to these critical operational systems. The solution should be capable of existing on any platform and be capable of extracting data from any of the many legacy systems across the MoD utilising the most efficient extraction method possible. The solution deployed today, should also consider the systems deployed tomorrow. The current security climate mandates that any system should manage protective markings.
• Data Transformation, Storage and Management: This is the process of bringing relevant cross-functional information together (e.g. tri-service) in a storage structure optimised for interrogation not transaction. In order to ensure minimum manual intervention, the process of data collection should be automated.
• Application and Analytical Services: The process of unlocking the intelligence from the data. This allows the discovery of true cost drivers and opportunities to make significant savings. Providing sophisticated forecasting and prediction allowing rapid and agile adaptation to change - reducing guesswork and reactive behaviour.