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Information, as an asset, may be as valuable as the product or service to which it relates. The life span of the information frequently exceeds that of the product or service. Eurostep helps defence organizations and companies to understand, manage and use their information, as the valuable asset it is.

Eurostep helps companies and organizations in the defence sector by:
• Helping defence organizations establish strategies and solutions for the effective management of their information.
• Helping defence companies integrate product data, documentation and logistics data to enable process improvement and better servicing of the information requirements of their customer. 

 

We have renowned international experts and a proven track record in providing this help to major defence organizations including:
• US DoD
• UK MoD 
• NATO
• Swedish Defence
• Finnish Defence
• Norwegian Defence
• Various major defence contractors

 

Defence scenarios are changing rapidly:
• Decreasing government defence budgets, leading to the need for:
- improved development and deployment times
- reduced through-life cost targets
- extended equipment life times
• Increased international co-operation in major conflicts and roles such as peace-keeping.
• Defence operations involving combined service actions demand greater information sharing capability.
• The globalisation and consolidation of the defence industry.
• Acquisitions and mergers between major customers and contractors, within and across national boundaries:
- increased willingness to procure internationally
- co-operative developments to share cost and risk across companies and nations

 

As a result of the changing defence requirements, Eurostep understands:
• The increased need for more effective and efficient international data interchange and sharing between governments, major contractors, and their supplier bases.
• Different contracting models:
- changing the responsibilities for holding and maintaining information
- increasing the need to share information
• The increasing expectation that information is available to the end user/maintainer of defence systems.

Navy PLCS

 

These requirements impact on defence IT:
• The increasing expectation that information is available to the end user/maintainer of defence systems.
• Sharing and exchange of data with many other organizations.
• Delivery of data in electronic form to customers and partners.
• Product Data Management (PDM) capability.
• Support for multiple languages, national requirements, policies and procedures.
• Necessity to manage and manipulate legacy data from many different systems in multiple formats.  

 

Meeting these challenges requires:
• The ability to recognize and understand the real requirements.
• A thorough understanding of the applicable standards which should be used.
• Experience and expertise in the application of the implementation methods and technologies.
• Experience in planning and designing complex information models and system.
• A fully international perspective.

 

PDF BAE Systems Hägglunds: In-Service Information Management

PDF US Army: Full Service Life Cycle Engineering Support

 

Contact us:
Finland: Leo Torvikoski
France: Christian Giraud
Sweden: Håkan Kårdén
United Kingdom: Simon Dick
USA: Nigel Shaw