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Video Gaming at QinetiQ: inspiring, motivating, boosting productivity
QinetiQ management are keen to ensure that staff are continually innovating, and collaborating, to produce effective outcomes for all stakeholders. A recent example can be seen within our Training and...
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The Cloud
Just like many others within QinetiQ management, I’m really excited about The Cloud. It provides the resources to do things that would previously have been impossible. Weapons calculations are...
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Under the radar
On the front line, a Royal Navy warship needs to be fast, agile and, most important of all, remain undetected by the enemy. So, how do you go about making a 500ft ship ‘invisible’? Engineers at...
View ArticleQinetiQ helps MoD choose new handgun for Armed Forces
The Ministry of Defence has recently signed a £9M contract to provide all three services of the Armed Forces with more than 25,000 new side-arms and holsters from Austria’s Glock, to replace the...
View ArticleThrough an apprentice’s eyes
I’ve been Mechanical Aeronautical Apprentice here since September 2011. During this time I’ve experienced and learnt so much about a huge array of things. Once qualified, I’ll be able to work on...
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Pin-point accuracy caught on camera
Introducing Rik Sellwood – Service Development Manager, Range Capability Services The Aerial Targets systems in QinetiQ’s weapons division routinely provide training support to the Royal Artillery...
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Farewell flight for QinetiQ’s BAC 1-11
By Gary Borland, Managing Director of Air Division, QinetiQ The remaining BAC 1-11 took its very last flight today from MOD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire to Newquay Museum in Cornwall. Source:...
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QinetiQ’s apprentices give ‘gate guardian’ a full face lift
By Dean Sowerby, Apprentice, QinetiQ Training School at MOD Boscombe Down Dean gives us an update on how things are going in his apprenticeship programme at the QinetiQ Training School. Most notably,...
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The Empire Test Pilots’ School celebrates 70 years of successful flight test...
Today, the 70th anniversary, we take a look at the birth of The Empire Test Pilots’ School (ETPS), and follow-up in the coming weeks with further insights into the history of the school. Flight test...
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ETPS 70th Anniversary: a history of top-class graduates
As the Empire Test Pilots’ School – based at MOD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire, and run by QinetiQ –celebrates its 70th anniversary, we take a look back at some of the past graduates of the School. All of...
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Through an Apprentice’s eyes – an update
Dean Sowerby, Apprentice, QinetiQ Apprentice Training School at Boscombe Down Date: July In May I reported on the work QinetiQ apprentices had been doing on refurbishing the Lightning – the gate...
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Through an Apprentice’s eyes – an update
Dean Sowerby, Apprentice, QinetiQ Apprentice Training School at MOD Boscombe Down During July, after leaving my placement at Air Worthiness, I have been at the Ground Support department (GSE) at MOD...
View ArticleStudents help ‘Secret Agents’ as part of QinetiQ’s STEM Outreach Programme
Sean Ngo, High Powered RF Engineer, Weapons Technologies Have you solved encrypted puzzles to reveal a secret message? Have you ever been a secret spy, searching for valuable information? And have you...
View ArticleThe benefits of open architecture within survivability research
Jerry Sollick, Capability Team Leader for Survivability Research UK MOD has recently commenced a number of initiatives aimed at the introduction of Open Architectures into the Land domain. This is...
View ArticleDSEI: bringing QinetiQ know-how to life for 30,000 visitors
The biggest defence and security show in the world, DSEI (10-13 September, ExCeL London) gives QinetiQ an unique opportunity to demonstrate what we do well by getting our capabilities and technologies...
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What’s the buzz around MOD Pendine?!
By Katie Martin, Community Liaison Officer, QinetiQ Katie explains what QinetiQ is doing at MOD Pendine to help the declining bee population Honey bees (apris mellifera) collect pollen, nectar and...
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Helping protect the Royal Navy fleet from fast inshore attack craft
Peter Furness, Sales Manager – Survivability Solutions In 2011, QinetiQ successfully demonstrated its rapid and accurate target identification system Pointer™, a Networked Weapon Cueing system. During...
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QinetiQ apprentice wins ‘inspirational’ award
Dr Sam Healy, Head of Corporate Responsibility, QinetiQ As staunch supporters of STEMNET (the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network), we’re all very pleased and proud at QinetiQ that...
View ArticleBringing innovation to market successfully
Adam J. Shohet, Business Development Manager, QinetiQ Research Services With defence budgets under increasing pressure, and the MOD transitioning to become less of an ‘active’ army, how can defence...
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Sea Spear trial success
Nick Everett, Senior Programme Manager In a fast paced and unusual project, QinetiQ’s Weapons teams pulled out all the stops to create a demonstration environment for our customer,MBDA. Using our...
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