Aerospace & Defence

How do Aerospace & Defence organisations turn growing demand into reliable, profitable delivery?

Strong demand means little without effective execution. In a sector defined by complexity, regulation, and pressure on cost and performance, the challenge is rarely strategy, it’s turning plans into outcomes across fragmented systems, suppliers, and teams.

FourCentric works across the A&D ecosystem, supporting primes, OEMs, and government organisations.

We combine expertise across procurement, operations, supply chain, logistics, asset performance, analytics, and transformation to help organisations convert orderbook growth into consistent, profitable performance.

Our experience covers manufacturing and operational improvement, asset and logistics performance, defence and public sector procurement, commercial and technology sourcing, and supplier management in secure and highly regulated environments.

Across these areas, we help organisations improve throughput and delivery performance, strengthen supply chain resilience, reduce programme risk, optimise cost and margin in long-term programmes, and manage complex sourcing and contracts in sensitive settings.

In practice, we help procurement, operations, and supply chain, asset and logistics teams work as one system rather than in silos. From turning demand into stable, executable plans to improving performance across multi-tier supply chains, we focus on creating the alignment, visibility, and operational discipline needed to deliver consistently over time.

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Experience across the A&D ecosystem

Aerospace & Defence Experts

Our Aerospace & Defence team brings together commercial, procurement, supply chain and operational experience across the entire public and private sector A&D ecosystem.

Nick Harrison

Partner FourCentric

Nick leads FourCentric’s advanced manufacturing sector and has more than 25 years of consulting experience across aerospace and defence, automotive and industrial manufacturing.

He helps organisations improve operational performance, supply chains and manufacturing operations, with expertise spanning transformation, industrialisation, operational technology and value chain optimisation. His experience includes working with leading global organisations including Rolls-Royce, GKN, Airbus, Safran, MBDA and Meggitt, helping clients deliver sustainable improvements across complex manufacturing and engineering environments in both the public and private sectors.

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Darren Blackburn

Partner 4C Associates

Darren is a partner at 4C Associates with extensive commercial and procurement experience across aerospace and defence, government and complex public sector programmes.

He began his career at BAE Systems, supporting major procurements for the Astute submarine programme and F-35. Since moving into consulting, he has worked across central government, local government and private sector organisations, leading large-scale transformation, cost reduction and commercial improvement programmes. He has also supported the Cabinet Office Complex Transactions Team and worked closely with the MOD and wider defence sector to deliver complex commercial outcomes.

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Alan Riordan

Director Evolve Commercial

Alan is a founder and director at Evolve Commercial. He has more than 20 years of commercial experience, supporting public and private sector organisations across all phases of the commercial lifecycle.

His background includes senior roles with BAE Systems, the Eurofighter programme, and public sector organisations, giving him deep experience in complex defence, aerospace and government environments.

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Ready to move from demand to delivery?

We work alongside A&D teams to build the operational discipline, visibility, and alignment that turns growth into performance.
The results speak for themselves.