HADES Technical support services provision

Delivering aviation excellence

Through the HADES Programme, Babcock is delivering a standardised range of technical support services and resilient operational support to the Royal Air Force (RAF), Joint Aviation Command and Strategic Command stations and dependent units.

A set of three regional contracts issued by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) under the Technical Support Services Provision (TSSP), HADES is a seven year programme in close collaboration with the RAF providing a range of critical services across the UK.

By providing services and airfield support to each of the 14 MOD sites within the contract and numerous parented sites, HADES provides a standardise a range of technical and support services throughout the UK.

At a glance:

• Supporting Single, Joint and Tri Services
• Key services include aircraft maintenance and support, general engineering, logistics and training support
• Supporting 12 main stations, 2 Satellite sites and numerous parented locations across the UK

Delivering support services at scale

HADES was developed to contract for technical support services on a large scale across several key services.

These include:

• Managing white and green fleet vehicle allocation and providing specialist crash and ambulance services
• Delivering vital airfield engineering support, managing and maintaining specialist ground support equipment as well as a wide range of fixed machine tools
• Receipt, storage, issue and management of the RAF’s logistics supply chain for all serving personnel and their accommodation, we are also responsible for initial kitting at both RAF Halton and RAFC Cranwell
• Maintaining small arms weapons, ammunition and explosives, and where relevant, the units 25m firing range
• Managing and maintaining all weapons for the Air Cadet Training Squadrons

An assured, safe and innovative service delivery model

Within the HADES programme, our teams work closely with our customers to deliver services as part of a whole force approach, fully understanding their needs and their working culture.

We share successes and innovative ways of working in a trusting working environment, centred upon collaboration and continuous improvement.

By leveraging our experience in handling complex Defence and Aviation contracts, we use a reliable, safe and innovative approach to achieve significant cost savings and operation benefits for Air Command – all while maintaining an uninterrupted service.

HADES in numbers:

• 12 main stations, two satellite  sites and a number of additional locations where we deliver service support
• 110 customer owned aircraft supported
• 6,500 vehicles and ground equipment supported
• 870 employees
• 2,000 planned air station maintenance tasks per month