Kahootz is the UK company whose cloud collaboration service was chosen by the UK MOD to power their Defence Share platform. Accredited to store and share information (classified up to OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE) Defence Share now enables MOD project teams to work safely with external organisations over the public Internet. Independently assessed for security and ISO 27001 certified, Kahootz is used across the public and private sectors to support a variety of team-working activities including: bid preparation, service transformation, sharing of best practice, project boards, procurement deal rooms and agile project delivery.With an increasing need for the Defence and Aerospace industry to work together on bids, proposals and project delivery, Kahootz provides an extremely cost effective and safe environment to engage and team work with partners, suppliers, clients and key stakeholders. Deployed in minutes and procured on a pay-as-you-go basis, Kahootz is suitable for projects of any size.

TD-Info facilitates activities in 'Secure Collaboration across Team Defence' based on secure information sharing - facilitating protected, productive and mutually profitable business relationships in the Aerospace and Defence sector.

The Turing Trust believes in a world of equal opportunity, with technology-enabled education for all. We provide reused IT equipment, loaded with educational resources, and training to schools in sub-Saharan Africa.Alan Turing, often thought of as the father of the computer, realised that it was a tool to help solve problems. Whilst the information age can bring significant benefits – it is vital that none are left behind.The Turing Trust, founded by Alan Turing’s closest family, believes that bridging the digital divide in Africa would be a truly fitting way to honour his remarkable legacy.

AERALIS was founded on a passion to re-energise the UK aircraft industry and to deliver market leading aircraft and exceptional military pilot training, affordably.The AERALIS project aims to build innovative aircraft using a modular design that will motivate a new generation of young people to train in aerospace engineering, manufacturing and STEM subjects as well as follow careers in aviation.The common architecture between AERALIS aircraft provides a customer’s flying training system with a tangible cost advantage in engine and airframe maintenance through training and spares commonality when compared to the current use of mixed aircraft fleets. The total lifecycle cost of maintaining and supporting the AERALIS Basic and Advanced training aircraft will be 30% less than that of a conventional flying training system.AERALIS also aims to deliver shorter overall pilot training times due to commonality between aircraft types as well as exposing students earlier to more complex mission management training due to configurable cockpits and a fully tailorable flying training system.AERALIS – not just an aircraft manufacturer but a total flying training experience.

AI, ML and data science offers a critical opportunity to the UK Defence and Security sector, from the automation of business processes to the capability augmentation of front line operators. Whilst adoption is underway, there is still some distance to go before we can claim to be fully exploiting the opportunity.The Defence Artificial Intelligence Cluster (DAIC) pooled the efforts of a small group of companies offering AI as a force multiplier for the Defence, Aerospace and Security Industry and act as a capability accelerator.The capabilities of the cluster include, but are not limited to:- Digitally enabled automated decision making (Digital Backbone)- Sensor fusion- Data fusion- C4ISR- Automated intelligence gathering, assessment and action- Joint operations- Uncrewed systems- Big data collaboration

Providing strategic guidance to ADS to enable its Members involved in the defence export sector to identify and pursue responsible new business opportunities in a way which has enhanced effectiveness. This is to be achieved in partnership with the Defence & Security Organisation (DSO), Defence Growth Partnership (DGP) and Defence Solutions Centre (DSC).

The Aerospace Growth Partnership developed the National Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme (NATEP) aimed at small and medium sized suppliers to help them develop their own innovative technologies to enhance their capabilities and increase their ability to win new business with higher tier companies anywhere in the world. The programme builds upon the successful NATEP programme run between 2013-2017 and supported by the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative.By continuing to develop an aerospace supply chain with a high rate of innovation, rich in new technologies the UK will be better able to offer the right products and services, at the right time and ahead of competition. This will ensure that market opportunities are exploited with high value manufacturing work retained in the UK.

Helping innovative organisations change the world in Defence and Aerospace.

The ADS Urban Air Mobility Group aims to establish the UK as a world-leading location where UAM solutions and services are developed and delivered by bringing together the diverse stakeholders that will shape, and offer solutions into, this new and emerging sector of aviation

A patented process innovation (UK Patent 2498994, U.S. Patent 9226410) has extended Trackwise’ capability to the manufacture of flexible multilayer printed circuit boards of any length, more than 8m/300 inches in length, making these the world’s largest flexible multilayer PCBs.In high value, mass- critical applications, boards of such length can be used as an alternative to traditional wiring harnesses, offering significant benefits in terms of reliability, repeatability and moreover in the reduction of space required and weight – up to 75% saving.

The Defence Export Focus Group (DEFG) is the special interest group which was created in 2009, on the creation of ADS Group. The DEFG, which meets quarterly, reviews and prioritises export programmes and opportunities in the Defence sector (in the air, land and maritime environments). Its Membership currently consists of a wide range of large, medium and SME companies, who all willingly contribute their own knowledge, expertise and insights into its deliberations and outputs