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the defence supply chain and how we need to collaborate to accelerate research, drive innovation and translate all of that into war fighting effect, quickly.
The introduction of our Babcock SME engagement charter will help to cut through the complexity, remove barriers, make it easier for SMEs to engage, innovate and contribute. That’ s the fundamental principle of it. It’ s got some real practical commitments in there.
And really, we’ re driving for them to grow and scale with us. We did a body of research work called the Next Line of Defence with the University of Exeter, which looks at areas to strengthen the long-term resilience of our SMEs.
Q. COULD YOU SHARE A CASE STUDY OF WHERE SMES HAVE HELPED UNLOCK VALUE FOR BABCOCK?
» In general SMEs unlock value for us across many activities. We’ ve got more than 4,000 small and medium enterprises across our organisation and our supply chain and they create value for us every single day, whether that’ s a product that they bring or the creative thinking about how we can either integrate a product or move forward.
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