Alliance partners

By working together we can utilise our strengths, exploit opportunities, mitigate risk and overcome the inevitable challenges far more effectively.

Alliance Partners

No one organisation can deliver this scale of programme on its own but by working together we can utilise our strengths, exploit opportunities, mitigate risk and overcome the inevitable challenges far more effectively.

Submarine Delivery Agency Dreadnought Supply & Support Team

Equipment supplier of the Strategic Weapon SystemrnrnThe SDA manage the procurement, in-service support and decommissioning of all current and future nuclear submarines, 20 including Dreadnought. rnrnIt has the authority and freedom to recruit and retain the best individuals to manage the submarine enterprise. All people already working on submarine related activities within MOD have transferred across to the new delivery body, which now employs around 1,300 people, both civilian and military.

BAE Systems Submarines

Designer and shipbuilderrnrnBAE Systems are the industrial lead for the Dreadnought programme and alongside partners Rolls-Royce, are designing and constructing a new generation of submarines to carry the UK’s independent nuclear deterrent.rnrnBAE Systems is the lead for the whole boat build and secondary propulsion and is the platform technical authority on the Dreadnought programme, which will deliver four new submarines for the Royal Navy and replace the current Vanguard class. rnrnThe first of the new submarines will be ready for patrol in the 2030s.

Rolls-Royce Submarines

Designer and manufacturer of the Nuclear Propulsion System