Redesigning Garments for Real World Threats.
Company Capability: BCE Defensive Ltd is a UK-based defence innovation company focused on the development of lightweight protective equipment systems for modern military operations.
Founder
It's a simple, adaptive, and protective solution that defence teams actually want to wear. It's important to keep innovating within these protection capability gaps.
M. Smith
Founder
BCE Defensive Ltd
"Innovating the balance between comfort, concealment and protection."
Based in Plymouth, UK, with over a decade of experience engaging with the defence sector. Now shifting a focus on innovation in protective equipment; the aim is to develop solutions that improve survivability and operational capability for modern military personnel.
With a strong interest in niche protective technologies and emerging defence requirements, BCE Defensive is committed to advancing practical solutions that address real operational challenges.
Be Adaptive.
Our work not only concentrates on improving protection for exposed areas of the body - we adapt these designs to the environments.
Mark Smith
Founder & CEO
Founder, designer and developer of the NG-Serpa system and BCE Defensive Ltd. CEO of Product development and business direction.
Gary Clattworthy
Head of Business Operations
A business visionary, serial entrepreneur, CEO, and mentor for global enterprise. Commercial, Sales & Marketing specialist.
Meet the team dedicated
to building a more reliable and secure future
Thomas Mullen
Global Relations Manager
Former Royal Marine | Security & Defence specialising in Research and Development | UAVP - BVLOS Instructor | Training Manager | Executive Protection Operative. Tom is partnered to GreyEdge Protection Ltd.
Graham Chastell (Chas)
International Supply-Chain & Equipment Advisor
Former British Army Sergeant Major with 25 years military service. Chas leads product development, innovations and manufacturing solutions for Chiltern Global Ltd.
BCE Defensive Ltd is a UK-based defence innovation company focused on the development of advanced protective equipment for modern military personnel. Driven by a commitment to improving survivability and operational effectiveness, our work centres on lightweight protective solutions designed to integrate seamlessly with existing soldier systems. Through continuous research, industry engagement, and a practical understanding of operational challenges, BCE Defensive aims to deliver innovative capabilities that support the evolving needs of defence organisations.
Networking & News
BCE Defensive actively engages with defence organisations, research groups, and industry partners to support the development of next-generation protective equipment.
Chiltern Global Ltd: Manufacturing
Chiltern Global are a UK based manufacturer of specialist equipment for the police, defence, prison and medical sectors which has been delivering high quality products since 2005. They played a pivotal role in introducing the product to Defence markets and are the primary manufacture for BCE Defensive Ltd.
Haitus Digital: Podcast
The Hiatus brand was first envisioned in the early 2000s by Chris Shirley MA FRGS, a UX, UI and human factors design specialist with a unique background in military leadership, risk advisory, and global media operations. Chris has recently produced some excellent exposure to start-up and sale-up defence companies from his Podcast.
Precision Ballistics Ltd: Testing
With over 20 years’ combined experience in the design, development, testing and qualification of protective systems. As well as the design, analysis and forensic reverse engineering of projectiles and novel threats, Precision Ballistics Laboratories offers a unique range of capabilities to the UK Test & Evaluation market. ballistic test methods such as, EN1063/1522/1523, PAS300 / VSAG / VPAM, STANAG 4569 / AEP55, STANAG/AEP 2920, NIJ 0108.01 (Protective Materials), 0106.01 (Helmets), 0101.06 (Body Armour) as well as tailored customer requirements.
CQC Ltd: R&D
Since 1948, CQC has provided high quality, robust, military personal equipment to the UK Ministry of Defence and many professional international militaries. CQC were the first to take on the concept of the NG-Serpa and help drive it's development with their excellent R&D team.