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Militaries have long depended on information. Tactical, operational and strategic intelligence is vital to warfare. And there has long been a close relationship between defence and technology.

At the IFS World Conference in Boston, USA, Nick Ward, Head of Product Management for Digital Services, Civil Aerospace at Rolls-Royce described how the aerospace company servitized its business 20 ...