- CEO
- Steve Wadey
- Full Time Employees
- 8,500
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- Address
- Cody Technology Park Farnborough United Kingdom GU14 0LX
- IPO Date
- Apr 20, 2006
- Business
- QinetiQ Group plc (QQ.L) is a United Kingdom-based science and technology company that develops and provides technology-based products and services primarily in the defence, security, and critical national infrastructure markets. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities, including test, evaluation, training, and advisory services for air, land, sea, and target systems; engineering delivery partnerships such as the Long Term Partnering Agreement (LTPA) for UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) sustainment of military systems; C4ISR solutions encompassing communication, reconnaissance, intelligence, surveillance, sensors, cyber, and data science; maritime autonomy, naval mission systems, and stealth technologies; air engineering services, air traffic management, safety, and environmental management; cyber security services including accreditation support, data classification, and insider threat management; unmanned systems such as Talon robots and Banshee targets; and specialised products like LAST Armour, ALARM radar, and distributed acoustic sensing via Optasense. QinetiQ operates through two primary segments: EMEA Services (Europe, Middle East, and Australasia) and Global Solutions (including North America via QinetiQ US and subsidiaries like Avantus), serving government customers such as the UK MoD, US Department of Defense, and allied forces, as well as commercial clients in aerospace and security sectors; it maintains key facilities at Farnborough (Hampshire), Boscombe Down (Wiltshire), and Malvern (Worcestershire) in the UK, with a global workforce exceeding 6,000 employees.
Founded in 2001 as a privatised entity from the UK's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) and headquartered at Cody Technology Park, Ively Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, QinetiQ is a FTSE 250 constituent listed on the London Stock Exchange. In recent developments, the company secured a five-year, £1.54 billion extension to its LTPA with the UK MoD in 2025 to modernise test and evaluation capabilities, including easier SME access and AI-enabled delivery; strengthened its Engineering Delivery Partner (EDP) contract, which has surpassed £1.5 billion in orders; expanded in Australia via a partnership with Forcys for integrated subsea surveillance systems and AU$148 million in Major Service Provider orders for programmes like Abrams tanks and Naval Strike Missiles; won a £150 million TacSys Resource Partner contract with UK Defence Digital; progressed US Army sensor capabilities under an Other Transaction Authority for next-generation battlefield sensing; and reported record FY24 order intake of £1.74 billion with a £2.9 billion backlog, alongside integration of its 2022 $590 million acquisition of Avantus Federal. These initiatives underscore QinetiQ's strategic focus on growth in high-demand defence areas, bolstered by £11 billion in future pipeline opportunities.