Since 2008 SMHS, a UK company, has been providing scientific, technical and integration consultancy services for a range of ICT capabilities, such as Messaging, Identity and Access Management, Data-Centric Security and Collaboration, primarily for the Defence and Intelligence industry.

SMHS personnel have been actively working within these domains over the last 30 years and have a strong involvement in the specification, review and development of Open Standards in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Combined Communications Electronics Board (CCEB) and NATO STANAGs.