Telent has secured a major RAF contract to operate and enhance the Site Co-ordination, Installation and Design Authority (SCIDA) service.

SCIDA controls how IT and communications infrastructure changes are approved and delivered across 244 sites, including all military air traffic control infrastructure.

The contract starts this month, with a four-year delivery phase beginning in April, and includes new customer liaison and process improvement roles to modernise workflows.

Telent, which was acquired by M Group in August last year, will manage end-to-end change control and stakeholder engagement, replacing spreadsheet-heavy processes with secure digital tools inside the MOD’s Modnet environment.

It will also integrate the RAF’s AutoCAD planning system to reduce duplication, improve transparency and speed up approvals, with 37 staff transferring into Telent as part of the transition.