Technology Magazine October 2022 | Page 104

BT DEFENCE

BT

& the MOD : A Public and Private Defence Relationship
“ So , we have people that run the accounts-facing Army , Navy , Air Force and Strategic Command – the four key pillars of the MoD ; we ' re not just focused on a centralised part of defence , but are working with our customers and helping them across all pillars , from a sales perspective .
“ Additionally , we have all of the enabling functions . We ' re a very functional model in BT . So I depend on Contract Management , Financial , Legal , Project Delivery , Service Operations and Security – a whole , wide ecosystem , all of which is underpinned by technology experts who are , for example , Solutions Architects that work out of our research labs in Adastral Park near Ipswich , where we are able to bring cutting-edge technologies to our customers .
“ There ’ s a really large matrix of people across BT working towards those outputs .”
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