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New Engineering Order
NEO is a UK engineering consortium built to deliver platform integration for defence primes and the Ministry of Defence — design, installation, certification and test, under one accountable partner.
Domain 01
Full C4 integration on armoured and support platforms — command, control, communications and computers fitted, tested and certified to UK defence standards.
Domain 02
Airworthiness-minded electrical and communications integration — harness design, electromagnetic compatibility and the documentation trail to prove it.
Domain 04
Ground segment and space-enabled communications integration — bringing resilient PNT and satellite connectivity down onto the platform where it has to work.
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The cabling, connector and interface specifications are published, not licensed. A supplier builds to them and connects — without negotiating access or redesigning the vehicle around their box.
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Servers, Ethernet switching and fibre fitted as vehicle infrastructure — one network carrying every system on the platform, rather than a separate harness for each.
03
A central plate where third-party equipment takes power and network together. Plug into the platform rather than cut into it.
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Connect platforms to one another and their processing pools with them. A task can draw on the capacity of the whole group, not only the vehicle it started on.
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Battle plans and C4I data — including radio configuration and frequency plans — built centrally and pushed to every connected platform in one operation.
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Designed, integrated and certified onto the British Army fleet — and onto armoured vehicles anywhere else.
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The VIPA architecture itself — the service model, resource management, and the software that maps requested capability onto the hardware a given platform has.
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The physical layer — harness and power design, the connection plates, and the published interface specifications third parties build against.
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Getting it onto the platform and through ID&C — design review, first of type, EMC and TEMPEST, and the evidence trail the customer requires.
Delivered as one programme, under one contract.
Leadership
NEO is led by three engineers who have spent their careers inside UK defence programmes — on the platform, in the design office and across the supply chain.
Engineering Manager, NEO Consortium
Phil leads engineering delivery across the consortium, holding the technical thread from initial design review through to first of type and final design review. He is the single point of accountability for primes and MOD customers running a NEO programme.
Director
John brings deep experience of electrical and cabling design for military platforms, covering complex defence harness systems from schematic through manufacture to installed and certified fit.
Director
Noel focuses on precision engineering and manufacture within the consortium, and on the open compute and hardware architecture work that underpins VIPA.
What we do
Every discipline needed for platform integration, held inside one consortium and co-located near Pershore, Worcestershire — independent of any UK defence prime.
Get in touch
Tell us about the platform, the timescale and the standard it has to meet. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right partner for it.
