Havelsan and Bites Expand their Cooperation

Within its business eco-system and its strategy on working with competent subcontractors, Havelsan signed a cooperation agreement with Bites, which has been proving its capacity for 11 years in the projects in which it takes part. Havelsan and Bites, uniting in different projects for years, have taken their joint business areas a step further through this agreement. Deputy Chairman of the Board of Havelsan Taner Düvenci, Head of the Industrialization Department of the SSM Mr.Bilal Aktaş, Havelsan General Manager & CEO Mr.Ahmet Hamdi Atalay, Bites General Manager Mr. Uğur Coşkun and executives of Bites were present at the signing ceremony. 

Deputy Chairman of Havelsan Mr. Düvenci: “The lessons we learned will carry us step further”

In his speech at the ceremony, Deputy Chairman of Havelsan Mr.Taner Düvenci drew attention to the importance of the memorandum of understanding signed by the two companies and added, “As Havelsan we are aware that our growth will be through your contributions. We believe that this is an important step. We observed the efficiency and competence of Bites in our previous activities. In our following activities, we believe that both our nation and our industry will be reaching important points with the help of the lessons we learned from our previous studies. We wish that these signatures would bring good luck to both parties.”

SSM Head of Industrialization Department Mr.Bilal Aktaş: “We closely follow Havelsan’s Breakthroughs’’

Head of the SSM Industrialization Department Mr.Bilal Aktaş underlined that they, as the Undersecretariat, supported the qualified cooperation and added, “There are powerful opportunities to prove ourselves in the international arena.  This cooperation and the strong partnerships also have great importance in respect to having more competitiveness in international arena in addition to the domestic market and for the quicker adoption of decisions. We closely follow Havelsan’s recent progresses and breakthroughs in cyber security as well as in simulation and software. We expect Havelsan to increase the number of competent companies, such as Bites which it included, to its business eco-system” 

Havelsan President and CEO Mr. Ahmet Hamdi Atalay: “We expect the companies to become ‘indispensable’”

Havelsan General Manager & CEO Mr.Ahmet Hamdi Atalay reminded that they have been working with the vision of creating a business eco-system at Havelsan and stated that they aimed to reach the targets they determined through inorganic growth in the business eco-system and continued, “While reaching the 1.5 billion USD turnover target, that we identified for ourselves for the year 2023, we see that Havelsan will be in need of 6000 personnel with a rough estimation in order to reach its target business potential. But we aim to reach this target through our business eco-system instead of our own personnel. We believe that through our business eco-system we will be growing more rapidly, become more competitive and fulfil our gap”. Speaking of the infrastructure Havelsan established through its business eco-system model, Mr.Atalay continued, “Currently the companies applying through our website are being evaluated by an independent auditing company as per our criteria. With the results obtained from this assessment, the companies are being subject to the calculation of scores. Currently there are 160 companies in our business eco-system. 68 of these companies’ evaluations have been completed. As a result of this study, we are evaluating our business partner candidates through objective and already established criteria according to their categories. We envision this systematic approach to become a model in the defense industry and create a resource. The business eco-system is one of our most important breakthroughs and we are proud to be offering this structure to the service of our Undersecretariat for Defense Industries as well. Through the memorandum of understanding we signed today, we are carrying our cooperation with one of our leading companies Bites to the next level. We expect our companies to become ‘indispensable’ for us. By this means, whenever we need cooperation in a certain area, we wish to know the correct addresses and progress strategically.”

General Manager of Bites Mr. Uğur Coşkun: “Strategic Cooperation will return as gains to our country” 

General Manager of Bites Mr. Uğur stated that the cooperation agreement they signed with Havelsan was the crowning of a cooperation that has been successfully conducted for years and continued, “In 2005 we took our initial step in the defense and aerospace industry with one of Europe’s greatest Helicopter Simulator Projects HELSİM and we have been included into Havelsan’s business eco-system. The cooperation launched through this project has gained strength with many successful, cost-effective projects focusing on customer satisfaction and reached to its current status. As our Minister of National Defense Mr. Fikri Işık also pointed out, we fully believe that the strategic cooperation in such dimensions will be returning to our country as gains. As the Bites family, we are proud and happy to generate solutions for Havelsan - which we have been providing services for in numerous projects for 11 years - in the areas it requires assistance today, as in the past, and we act together with Havelsan in our joint business areas.” 

Through this cooperation agreement, which is one of the fruits of Havelsan’s business eco-system approach, the two companies plan to develop joint solutions both towards domestic and international markets on Computer Based Training Simulators, Simulator Data Recording and Debriefing System Software, Management Information Systems (Training, Logistics, Maintenance, etc.), Training Management Information Systems, Visual Database Development and 3 Dimensional Modelling areas. 

Attaching great importance to developing its business eco-system with its solution partners in line with its growth strategy, Havelsan’s activities in this area has been registered with its becoming the first company in the area of Cooperation and Interaction among 8 major companies in the ´Defense and Aerospace Industry Sector´ within the Private Sector R&D Centers Performance Index of 2016.

 The reinforcement of the joint culture and business discipline acquired through the projects accomplished so far with the cooperation agreement signed by Havelsan and Bites, and with the results of the agreement, they are expected to create a model for the Turkish defense and aerospace industry in respect to long term cooperation.