IFS supports Affinity in UK MOD Military Flying Training System

IFS Applications 9 and IFS Managed Cloud on Microsoft Azure to support Affinity
Flying Training Services managing aircraft maintenance for pilot training as
part of wider £1.1 billion UK Ministry of Defence investment into modernization
of Fixed Wing military flight training

IFS (http://www4.ifsworld.com/l/5332/2015-08-10/2qts7r), the global enterprise
applications company, announces that Affinity Flying Training
Services (http://www.affinityfts.co.uk/) has chosen IFS Applications™
9 (http://www.ifsworld.com/en/solutions/ifs-applications/ifs-applications-9/)
and IFS Managed Cloud™ (http://www.ifsworld.com/en/solutions/ifs
-applications/cloud-erp/) as one integrated solution for aircraft maintenance
and ERP. The agreement with IFS, including licenses, is valued at approximately
£1.2 million for the first six years of the 18-year contract.
Affinity Flying Services Limited secured a GBP500 million (USD721 million)
contract in February to provide the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) and its Ascent
Flight Training partner with the aircraft for the Fixed-Wing portion of the UK
Military Flying Training System (UKMFTS) program.

Affinity, an Elbit Systems and Kellogg Brown & Root joint venture, will replace
legacy MOD fleets with 38 modern training aircraft as well as simulators and
classroom learning for aircrew across the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy Fleet Air
Arm, and Army Air Corps. The contract includes the designing, delivering, and
managing of the fixed-wing training service until 2033 and is expected to
provide around 200 new jobs across training bases in the UK.

As part of this, IFS Applications 9 and the IFS Managed Cloud solution will
provide Affinity with maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) and ERP software
for the business as an end-to-end solution—supporting aircraft operations and
maintenance, supply chain, HR, and finance. Affinity will provide a fixed-wing
training aircraft and maintenance to support UK Fixed Wing military flying
training to deliver an optimized training service and ensure availability of
Grob G 120TP ‘Prefect’, Beechcraft ‘Texan’ T-6C and the Embraer ‘Phenom’ 100
training aircraft.

“Affinity plays a key part in the seamless progression of military personnel
through fixed wing flying training and, with the help of IFS, will help support
a more modern and efficient training pipeline for UK aircraft pilots,” Ian
Chalmers, Managing Director at Affinity Flying Training Services said. “The IFS
solution is a perfect fit for us as it provides an agile and responsive system
to better ensure the maintenance and availability of our aircraft for the
duration of our partnership with Ascent and the MOD, as well as supporting the
running of our JV business.”

IFS aerospace and defense industry director Graham Grose said, “We are delighted
to have been selected to be part of this important £500 million MOD and Ascent
Flight Training investment (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/11-billion
-investment-by-mod-in-future-military-flying-training) for fixed-wing training.
The solution provides Affinity with a powerful and easily deployed service to
streamline the maintenance process of aircraft and to focus on training the
future generation of military aircraft pilots. By using the solution, Affinity
can maintain the aircraft and prepare future UK aircrew for duty, as well as
making sure strict airworthiness and safety standards are met alongside the
running of the business from day to day with traditional finance, HR and
procurement.”
Anders Lundin, Corporate Communications. Telephone: 46 8 58 78 45 00,
press@ifsworld.com
About Affinity

Affinity supports UK military air capability by playing a key part in the
seamless progression of pilots through flight training. Under a landmark
partnering programme with Ascent and the Ministry of Defence, Affinity supplies
and supports three fleets of aircraft within the UK Military Flight Training
System (UKMFTS). We support a training pipeline that is more modern, effective
and efficient. As a result, UK military aircrew will be better prepared for
duty. Through technical advancement and commercial innovation, we deliver
aircraft to match the training needs of the next generation on the frontline.
www.affinityfts.co.uk/.

About IFS

IFS (http://www.ifsworld.com/en/)™ is a globally recognized leader in developing
and delivering enterprise software for enterprise resource planning (ERP),
enterprise asset management (EAM) and enterprise service management (ESM). IFS
brings customers in targeted sectors closer to their business, helps them be
more agile and enables them to profit from change. IFS is a public company
(XSTO: IFS) founded in 1983 and currently has over 2,800 employees. IFS supports
more than 1 million users worldwide from its network of local offices and
through a growing ecosystem of partners. For more information
visit: www.ifsworld.com.

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IFS discloses the information herein pursuant to the Financial Instruments Act
(1991:980) and/or the Securities Markets Act (2007:528). The information was
submitted for publication on May 10, 2016, at 9 a.m. CEST.