IFS Defence

IFS Defence dedicated to the Aerospace and Defense Market

IFS is one of the world’s leading providers of fully-integrated business software solutions built on service oriented architecture (SOA) technology. Founded in 1983, IFS Applications™ are designed to meet the demanding needs of the Aerospace & Defense industry. For more than 10 years, IFS Defence has delivered value-added business solutions to customers in the Aerospace & Defense sector. Our product development is driven to meet the rigorous demands of your changing market, delivering an easy to use and flexible product to keep you ahead. Our focus is to enhance your operational capability—helping you manage change, reduce costs, improve customer service and improve data quality.

IFS Defence is present in 52 countries and is independently recognized as the global leader in Aerospace & Defense for maintenance and logistics solutions. The unrivalled pedigree of IFS Defence can help you, as it does help leading military and civil Aerospace & Defense organizations in the: UK, EMEA, USA and across the globe adapt to the challenges of transformation. Our people offer a wealth of Aerospace & Defense experience, and our products support the most challenging programs in the Aerospace & Defense sector.

Complex Maintenance Repair and Overhaul & Asset Management Solutions

In large and disparate organizations it is common place to find a selection of commercial off the shelf (COTS) solutions integrated with purpose built home-grown business software. The success of a COTS application must be measured by its fit for purpose functionality, its ease of use, and its ability to be integrated with other solutions. In this fast changing world it also has to offer users’ a low risk means of keeping ahead of technology by having the minimum of technology ‘lock-in’ and the capability to reapply integration scenarios as business processes change and data connectivity and transfer requirements alter. Our COTS solution is designed to enable a seamless co-existence with your existing systems and environments within complex and geographically dispersed, and often fragmented user networks.

Military Maintenance Repair and Overhaul

IFS Applications is built using the same principles employed by successful manufacturers—the production and assembly of components. This allows change and evolution within a software component without impacting on other software components within the solution. IFS Service-Oriented Component Architecture™ delivers the agility and ease of use found in service-oriented architectures; and the proven benefits of components and object orientation are combined to create a powerful architecture. This granular component approach provides a low risk and more agile access to individual data elements, their interconnectivity and maintenance.

Military Fleet Asset Management

Our solutions underpin the delivery of significant reductions in inventory investments and increased fleet availability and visibility for enhanced operational readiness—by delivering component-based business and project-based support solutions into MODs & DoDs; and into industry for Contractor Logistics Support (CLS), Performance Based Logistics (PBL) and Fleet Operator programs. It also provides specific packaged solutions for Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO)—including Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Asset & Fleet Management, Supply Chain Management and Product Lifecycle Management.

We are able to deliver a comprehensive and unique business solution covering the complete lifecycle from: conceptual design, through manufacture, in-service maintenance repair and overhaul, upgrades, and into retirement and disposal.

Aerospace & Defense Customers

With a customer base of the world’s leading defense companies including: Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, GE, General Dynamics and SAAB—IFS offers the Aerospace & Defence industry a unique, evolutionary and agile solution; by providing flexibility in a single product, and a step-by-step approach to implementation enables a faster ROI and ongoing lower TCO.