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BECAUSE INSTANT INFORMATION IS NOT A PRIVILEGE.
IT’S A REQUIREMENT.
The world is changing. Today, everything is mobile, connected, interactive, immediate, and fluid. To gain an advantage requires innovative technology and services to be at the forefront of every mission, wherever you are
HP has provided technology to UK forces which allows NATO-compatible information sharing at the frontline — ensuring our soldiers, sailors and airmen can do their jobs. We also give them and their families the support they need by providing the systems to manage pay, pensions ad administration for over 900,000 serving and retired members of the UK Armed Forces.
Rather than talking to our clients about our technology, we talk to them about what it can do. We talk to them about military effects in instant-on world where our forces can’t be put on hold.
At HP, responsiveness is at the forefront of our service offering, allowing us to care for people and the way they serve. It is people who ultimately determine military effect and mission success.
HP, partnering with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), has helped transform business administration processes within the Armed Forces. Our expertise and application of innovative technology has centralised personnel data into an easily accessible, flexible and configurable information system, resulting in more efficient, strategic decision-making.
By understanding the ethos behind service life, HP Enterprise Services adds value to every aspect of personnel management, handling data processes from recruitment, training and pay, through to expenses, leave and finally veteran pension schemes.
HP is a technology services provider that delivers critical elements to drive through a change in business climate – flexible technology, applied innovation, collaborative expertise and service excellence.
Providing supplies and equipment to the UK’s Armed Forces is the cornerstone of any operation, be it humanitarian, peacekeeping or military. The MOD requires that its systems and processes are evaluated and redesigned to deliver improved effectiveness and efficiencies. The MOD has partnered with HP to undertake a number of these major transformation projects.
HP is leading the ATLAS consortium to deliver the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) DII(F) – a vital part of the MOD's initiative to improve intelligence gathering and exploitation.
It also enables cost management and efficiency by extending into the operational arena, interfacing with battlespace systems and improving shared information between headquarters, battlefield support and the front line. DII(F) allows greater interoperability between the MOD and its allies, allowing significantly more effective operational support than currently available.
At HP, we understand that better, faster and more informed decision-making is fundamental to gaining advantage when delivering military effects.
Working with the MOD for over three decades, HP has pioneered technology driven services and solutions that incorporate evolving requirements and translating this into effective, leading edge systems that reflect military doctrine and tactics.
HP’s air mission planning tool, AMPA, allows aircrew to rapidly plan highly complex missions, visualising all critical elements on an interactive 3D viewer before getting airborne. Planning simplified, decisions made faster, complexity turned into mission success.
We live in an information intensive world where new technologies arrive at ever increasing speed, allowing us to share information faster than ever before. These networks need to be thoroughly secure, continuous and have total traceability.
HP provides a wide range of expertise in integrating IT infrastructure to provide secure and effective security solutions.
We allow our customers to enhance their competitive edge, while delivering practical and robust measures of protection which are fundamental to the success of day-to-day military operations.
HP has provided secure applications, data centres and infrastructure to our government and commercial clients for more than 40 years, partnering with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), UK Home Office and UK Law Enforcement. For these UK Government agencies, sophisticated and secure IT is a prerequisite of business.
Peace support and deployed operations rely increasingly on the ability of international coalitions to work together…and working together means communicating and sharing information accurately, quickly and securely.
Joint Forces and Alliance partners need to have the technology to maintain flexible interoperable communications between them for a more effective outcome to deliver stability and peace. HP provides solutions that enable clients to make more effective use of their communications, allowing them to respond to situations rapidly and effectively and work together as one.
HP Defence & Security has officially launched its sponsorship of Team Army, the not-for-profit organisation that raises funds for Army sports and service charities.
In a new strip bearing the HP logo, the Army football went into action March 16th against the RAF in a match that saw inter-service rivalry played out on the turf of Aldershot Town Football Club.
“Every day we provide support for the Armed Forces with technology and services that reach from the back-office to frontline operations so sponsoring Team Army is another great way to show our support, “ said Huw Owen, Managing Director of HP Defence & Security.
Mr Owen added, “As one the UK’s principal defence companies, we are proud of our partnership with Team Army as a demonstration of our commitment to the Armed Forces, whether they are on the battlefield or the sports field.”
The Army was held to a 1-1 draw by an RAF team that included former Manchester City player Lee Crooks who is now a gunner in the RAF Regiment. Post-match, the sportsmanship continued with a reception for both teams and officials where players received team caps, colours and trophies.
In the previous week, the Army was hosted by the Royal Navy at HMS Temeraire that saw the Army team take home the silverware for a 0-1 victory at this annual fixture.
MOD Agency wins major US award for its Joint Personnel Administration System for the UK Armed Forces
The Service Personnel and Veterans Agency (SPVA) has won a major award at the prestigious 2011 ‘Human Capital Management in Defence’ (HCMD) awards held in Arlington, Virginia on 16 February.
Beating off strong US competition, SPVA won the main award for its implementation of the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) System for the United Kingdom’s Armed Forces.
The award recognises the success of the outsourcing relationship within SPVA between the UK Ministry of Defence and HP Enterprise Services that started in November 1997, and included the successful introduction of JPA in 2006. JPA has revolutionised Armed Forces’ pay and personnel administration, bringing together the Royal Navy, Army and RAF onto one system, allowing users to update details themselves and providing one dedicated contact centre for help and support. It also delivered savings to the MOD in excess of £200 million in its first three years of operation
SPVA Chief Executive Kathy Barnes is delighted with the award:
“I am very proud of what the staff in SPVA have achieved and this is external recognition for everyone in the Agency - MOD Civil Servants, Military Personnel and HP staff and the way we have all adapted and worked together over the last few years. It reflects the success of our partnering relationship with HP and reinforces the value of our internal ‘One Team’ approach to working across different sites and organisations to deliver excellent customer service to our many customers – the UK’s Armed Forces personnel, veterans and their dependents.”
HP Account Executive Paul Couch, said:
“The award highlights the strength of our partnering relationship with the MOD, and our deep knowledge of Armed Forces HR. It reinforces the innovation and experience that HP brings to the table to improve service, generate savings and implement value for money solutions. With SPVA and through JPA, we have demonstrated what can be achieved in the shared services arena and are looking to use this as a foundation for helping the Government to achieve similar benefits in other areas.”
This is the fifth year of the HCMD Awards which have been established to honour, recognise, and promote successful human capital initiatives implemented throughout the Department of Defense and Federal Government. The Awards are also an opportunity to recognise individuals and teams who have made a significant contribution to progressing human capital management.
For the second year in a row, the HCMD Awards received over 35 nominations. "The judges really had their work cut out for them this year," commented Lisa Ringlen, executive director of the HCMD program. "There were so many strong programs nominated in each category."
This year’s nominations came from offices and programs from across the US federal government, representing the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, DISA, the IRS, Dept. of Energy, the National Park Service and the US Postal Service. SPVA was the only non US organisation to be nominated, which makes its achievement all the more remarkable
This success follows two other impressive awards received last year by SPVA and HP from the Shared Services Outsourcing Network. Last year's success was at the 'Shared Services Outsourcing Network (SSON) 2010 Industry Awards, in Edinburgh in May. The Agency first won the award for 'Best Mature Outsourced Services Delivery' for its management of the UK Forces' Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) system. It then went on to beat organisations from across Europe, the Middle-East and Africa to win the highest accolade of the night -the 'Winner of Winners' award.
Notes to editors
About SPVA
The Service Personnel and Veterans Agency is an Agency of the UK Ministry of Defence and provides essential support functions to the Armed Forces and veterans communities. These include forces pay and HR, issue of all medals, casualty repatriation and compassionate services, pensions, injury/bereavement compensation and veterans welfare support. The Agency operates from four main UK sites at Glasgow, Norcross near Blackpool, Imjin Barracks near Gloucester and HMS Sultan, Gosport
About HCMD and the awards
Approximately three million people work for the Department of Defence, making it the largest employer in the US. As the nation’s largest employer, managing human capital is an ongoing challenge and always a top priority.
The Human Capital Management for Defence (HCMD) Conference brings together, over four days, stakeholders from throughout the Defence and Intelligence Communities from strategic-level policy makers to the operational-level HR managers to discuss best practices for managing human capital. With so many Department of Defense (DoD) HR leaders in attendance, this conference often serves as the catalyst for DoD-wide HR strategies and initiatives.
SPVA won the Best Implementation of an Enterprise Technology System category which recognises the best program implementation of a human resources technology system, aimed at streamlining a specific HR process in order to drive down costs and improve efficiency and productivity.
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For Further Information
For further information, please contact the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency Press Office: Laurie Manton on 07795 970407 or David Johnson on 07717 882014.
HP and the Service Personnel & Veterans Agency (SPVA) administer 300,000 live pay records and maintains over 500,000 personnel records and nearly 800,000 pension records. In a single year, the HP-developed Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) system delivered cost savings of more than £63 million.
Partnering with long-established armed forces pension provider, Xafinity Paymaster, HP are delivering the most complex Oracle-based service delivery project in Europe. HP has harmonised the personnel policy and business administration processes, subsuming approximately 100 legacy IT systems. Economies of scale and rationalised working practices have enabled the redeployment of more than 1,400 military personnel to operational support roles.
"There have been few, if any, business change projects of such complexity (as JPA) anywhere else in the private or public sectors." (Ministry of Defence Annual Report 2006/7)
In mid-2010, the Shared Services & Outsourcing Network (SSON) presented their prestigious “Best Mature Outsourced Services Delivery” and “Winner of Winner’s” awards jointly to the SPVA and HP as recognition of shared services excellence on the JPA project.
In February 2011, SPVA was awarded “Best Implementation of an Enterprise Technology System” at the Human Capital Management For Defense Awards in Arlington, Virginia. This was in recognition of the significant transformation to Armed Forces’ pay and personnel administration through implementation of JPA.
The Management of the Joint Deployed Inventory (MJDI) and Management of Materiel in Transit (MMiT) let commanders know where and when vital supplies will arrive, giving stock visibility right up to the front.
HP has harmonised the UK's tri-service Command & Control systems into a Joint Operations Picture, giving enhanced situational awareness by laying data about weapon systems, enemy targets and more over military maps.
HP's Advanced Mission Planning Aid (AMPA) enhances the efficiency, speed and accuracy of planning for single or multi-aircraft missions. More than 300 AMPA systems are in service, on the Royal Air Force's Tornado, Typhoon, Hawk and rotary wing aircraft.
HP supplies the core technology to the UK Hydrographic Office for digital mapping and charting.
