Mastek has established strong working relationships with departments across major government and defence initiatives. We combine strong business and technical skills with mature programme management capabilities to ensure your IT strategy supports your transformation initiatives. Whether you are looking for groundbreaking solution design and development for logistics, or looking to enhance the way you manage your defence assets, we can help you adapt and innovate IT solutions affordably. Our offerings include:

• Whole Software Lifecycle Services in the ‘secure space’ - Application Architecture, Design, Development, Testing and Management/In-service for systems with high information and security governance models.

• The Power of Offshore, Securely - accredited Offshore Development Centre (ODC) that can be created for a specific programme in weeks, including independent accreditation for Personnel, Security and Information Governance, e.g. ISO27001, ISO9001:2008, JSP440, The Manual of Protective Security (MOPS) and CESG’s Offshoring Best Practice Guide Number 6. This enables ‘secure’ programmes to be delivered at a fraction of the cost of deploying in-country resources.

• High Governance Processes – ability to utilize our CMMi accredited software and management processes, covering Analysis, Design, Architecture (Security and Application), Testing, Test Data Management and In-service Support.

• Referenceable Capability in Public Sector Offshoring for Secure/High Governance Solutions – we have references available for our work in Defence, Criminal Justice, Health, Transport and Local Government/Education that enable new clients to validate that we understand the issues, mitigations and processes needed to enforce high quality, secure offshoring of major public sector programmes.

In partnership with Thales and Fujitsu, Mastek signed, in February 2008, a 10-year contract with the UK MoD to provide their new Air Movements Operations solution, supporting global air movements of passengers and cargo. The total contract value is £27 million.

The two-year procurement process was complex and involved a significant investment from Mastek, including:

• Sourcing and negotiating terms with Commercial Airline COTS vendors to source the baseline solution for conversion to Microsoft SOA and Military governance
• Development of a fully-functional solution prototype

Thales provides the prime contractor Programme Management, Data Migration and Security Consultancy. Fujitsu provides testing governance, testing execution, infrastructure implementation, and the support desk. Mastek is the Software Design, Development and Delivery partner.

The solution is significant for several reasons. Firstly, this MoD project involves the design and development of a specialist system that handles complex military logistics and defence asset management, providing significant benefits to the MoD in terms of process efficiencies, automation and information governance. Secondly, this new product will be a world first – no other companies have invested in providing a military-targeted product for this domain.