Saab AB: two offerings to test

What both hypotheses rest on

Saab is reading about delivery. Saab staff read about devops 37 times in ninety days and about dora 11 times, most likely the DORA metrics, four standard measures of software-delivery speed and stability, and not the EU regulation (inferred). Saab's Kubernetes posting asks for "CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices".
Group IT is being restaffed. IT operations moved under the Chief Digital Officer on 1 October. Applications for four Group IT heads close on 23 October, and the heads are unlikely to start before early 2027 (inferred).
Saab keeps the work in house. Cleura is the one outside operator on record, on the private cloud, and Saab bought about SEK 1.7 billion of work from Combitech in 2025.

Saab shows three market signals the offer lists: DevOps postings, an IT reorganisation and a new Group CIO (April 2026).
The IT Operations & Support posting puts "vendor services" in the new head's remit.
Application management in Karlskoga and Karlstad already works with external suppliers.
Two DORA metrics, time to restore and change failure rate, match the offer's service-level reporting.

The offer needs rising incidents or a team held on maintenance, and Saab has stated neither.
The devops signals concern platforms, while the offer supports business applications.
Saab runs IFS, Teamcenter and Windchill, and FP's support record on them is unestablished.
Supplier staff will need security vetting (inferred).

Anders Malmqvist, and the new Head of IT Operations & Support once in post: which systems do outside suppliers run today?
Does maintenance keep the team from new work?
Does anyone track restore time and change failure rate?

The offer's cold entry, a Support Health Check.

DORA metrics give a measured baseline, and the offer promises speed only against the client's own baseline.
Product Tech builds shared CI/CD components for Saab's product teams.
Anders Arpteg said in a Hyperight interview in February 2026 that few companies plan AI for production from day one. The offer exists for pilots stalled before production, but he named no Saab pilot.

Arpteg: which AI pilot is closest to production, and what stops it?
Product Tech, which Magnus Larsson heads by his own profile: which delivery metrics does the team track, and where is lead time longest?

A qualification call with FP's delivery owner for the offer, before anything is proposed.

Saab owns Combitech outright. Combitech employs about 2,600 experts in Sweden, Finland and India and sold SEK 4,977 million in 2025, about SEK 1.7 billion of it to Saab (Annual Report 2025).
It sells digitalisation, cyber security, system integration and AI, and it opened an engineering centre in Hyderabad in April 2025.
Senadin Alisic of Combitech speaks at the NDSML Summit in Stockholm on 10-11 November, where Arpteg sits on the advisory board.

With Combitech, FP does not need to run either offer at its designed scale. FP can show that it knows the practice: a two-to-three-week DevOps practices assessment of one delivery team, measured on the DORA metrics, or a training session on quality gates and AI-assisted delivery. FP has no packaged DevOps course, so the session would be built for Combitech.
The two offers become the reason to believe. FP has packaged run-side service and production-grade increments as fixed-scope offers, so a consultancy can inspect the method before it trusts it.

Combitech also competes for the work Saab buys from outside.
An assessment or a training session opens a door and is no support contract: the support offer does not count education-only buying as a sale.
FP's AI-assisted delivery tooling is its own IP, so a training session shows the method and does not hand over the tools.
Combitech has named no outside delivery partner on its client work.

Who owns delivery practice at Combitech, and does Combitech subcontract? Alisic at NDSML on 10 November is the first person to ask.