Serving defence as the definitive partnership providing decision support to enhance current and future military capability

Welcome to the Niteworks website. Niteworks is an innovative and agile enterprise for military capability-based acquisition and evidenced decision support, in which the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the UK defence industry work in partnership to address and resolve MOD’s high-priority issues.

An integral part of MOD’s capability management process, Niteworks provides a multi-disciplinary environment to explore novel and practical solutions to capability challenges, as well as providing impartial enterprise advice to MOD through the provision of the Key System Advisor (KSA) Service.

The best of UK defence capability

Niteworks is a highly flexible decision support tool for UK MOD, bringing together the best of the UK's defence capability to deliver vital contributions in three principal areas: current operations, Joint Capability Board (JCB) decision support, and major capability programmes. Aligned with the principles of Through Life Capability Management, Niteworks assesses capability across all Defence Lines of Development, increasing operational effectiveness and reducing programme and operational risk.

An inclusive partnership

Niteworks’ industry Partners are drawn from the major UK defence providers to ensure a breadth of domain knowledge, and from an increasingly diverse Associate community including small and medium enterprises, specialists, research establishments and major consulting companies.

The partnership has a unique culture and behavioural ethos based on collaboration, impartiality, transparency, agility, high performance and trust. Niteworks continues to broaden its inclusive partnership and its reach across UK defence to ensure that MOD can access the best skills available, and so allow a deepening of the core defence offering.

News

Niteworks Managing Director

Niteworks is pleased to announce the appointment of Bob Barton as Niteworks Managing Director. He will formally take up post on 1 June 2009 and will transition into the role during the month of June whilst managing existing commitments. Read more >

Minister for Defence Equipment and Support visits Niteworks – 24 March 2009

Niteworks was extremely pleased to welcome Quentin Davies MP, Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, to their Farnborough site on Tuesday 24 March. The Minister was given a comprehensive briefing on Niteworks and its current activities, and was able to view the FRES Sensor Mix experimentation activity taking place on the Niteworks floorplate. Read more >

Theme Status

For a summary of status of current Themes please see the attached link.