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An energy revolution?
With North Sea reserves rapidly depleting, the exploitation of shale gas could undoubtedly provide a viable alternative to fossil fuels. Only last week Ed Davey, the Secretary of State for Energy and...
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Masters of Disguise
In the natural world, camouflage plays a vital role in animal survival. Synthetic forms of camouflage have also long been of interest on the battlefield. During the First World War, camouflage schemes...
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Pushing the envelope: QinetiQ’s world-class wind tunnel
You might wonder what a Boeing 777, a Formula 1 car and Red Dwarf have in common. Well, they’ve all made use of QinetiQ’s five-metre wind tunnel at Farnborough. The low-speed, pressurised wind tunnel,...
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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...
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Bracing ourselves for a solar superstorm
This blog introduces Prof Paul S Cannon, QinetiQ employee and Senior Fellow, Director of the Poynting Institute at the University of Birmingham, and Chair of the Royal Academy of Engineering Study on...
View ArticleCamouflage, detection and identification of moving targets
The Royal Society (Biological Sciences) has recently published an article that I’m pleased to have co-authored. The article describes experiments conducted by myself and my co-researchers from 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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Is there life on Mars? QinetiQ supports investigations into Martian environment
Matthew Cosby, Chief Engineer, QinetiQ Space UK Establishing if life ever existed on Mars is something most people have asked themselves. The European Space Agency (ESA) ExoMars programme intends to...
View ArticleQinetiQ’s electric propulsion centre of excellence
Steven Austin, Sales and Strategy for Space and Neil Wallace, Electric Propulsion Chief Engineer In another example of how QinetiQ’s technological expertise is being successfully applied to commercial...
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TEMPEST: QinetiQ leads the way in security testing
Archie MacIntyre, TEMPEST Capability Lead at QinetiQ Farnborough The first question you probably want to ask is: what is TEMPEST and what does it stand for? That’s the easy part: TEMPEST is simply a...
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Flight simulator – test and evaluation training for pilots
Christian Rolleston, Project Technical Manager, ETPS – Flight Simulator With its history of research, design, advice, and disposal, QinetiQ is at the centre of aviation. Our Empire Test Pilots’ School...
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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...
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StayCool: QinetiQ’s smart technology helps protect against extreme heat
Raj Singh, Capability Lead for Devices, Smart Technologies In another example of applying its engineering expertise to provide commercial solutions, QinetiQ has been part of the EU team that developed...
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...
View ArticleHow fibre-optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is revolutionising border...
Protecting and monitoring borders brings a unique set of problems – not least the potentially huge distances to cover, challenges of providing infrastructure and power, the time criticality of alert...
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Statue of S F Cody, Britain’s first successful pilot, unveiled at Farnborough
On 7 August 1913, Samuel Franklin Cody, Britain’s first successful pilot, met his death in a flying accident over Farnborough. Exactly 100 years later an impressive bronze statue of Cody, by leading...
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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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Rapid and safe vehicle arresting technology
Peter Furness, Sales Manager – Survivability Solutions As preparation ramps up for the 2016 Olympic Games to be held in Brazil, QinetiQ is proud that one of its survivability products, X-Net® – having...
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iQ2014 – QinetiQ’s graduate recruitment campaign blasts off
Marketing We believe the future success of QinetiQ depends to a large extent on making sure that we engage with young people. That’s why we recently launched The 5% Club, a joint initiative with...
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