QinetiQ

QinetiQ is the controversially privatised British defence and security technology company. According to The Guardian newspaper:

QinetiQ, part of what was the formerly state-owned Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, was floated earlier this year, making tens of millions of pounds for chairman Sir John Chisholm and chief executive Graham Love.

The government had already sold 31 per cent of the company to US venture capital company Carlyle for £42m. Carlyle later sold part of that stake for £160million.

Qinetiq runs the British Government's secret military laboratories and was set up by the MOD to work with the Carlyle Group to run DERA, the British Government's "Defence Evaluation and Research Agency".

Contracts

2017

In July 2017 UK defence minister Michael Fallon speaking at the Royal International Air Tattoo announced a major new contract with Qinetiq:

The MOD has also signed a £9.5 million contract with QinetiQ to provide Typhoon pilots with the latest cockpit technology to prepare them for front line combat.

With the nature of global conflict ever evolving, it’s vital that the Armed Forces are trained effectively to deal with a variety of scenarios. This technical update will give Typhoon crews based at RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Coningsby the ability to link to the Air Battlespace Training Centre at RAF Waddington and undertake 10 weeks of simulated battle training a year in the latest cockpit and simulated training technology. The trainee aircrew will be exposed to state-of-the-art, simulated battlefield situations and the training facilitators can develop scenarios, provide mission management support and post mission debriefs, ensuring the crews will be best prepared for deployment.

Principals

Board

• Mark Elliot - Non-executive Chairman
• Leo Quinn - Chief Executive Officer
• David Mellors - Chief Financial Officer
• Michael Harper - Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Non-executive Director
• Colin Balmer - Non-executive Director
• Noreen Doyle - Non-executive Director
• Admiral Sir James Brunell-Nugent
• Paul Murray - Non-executive Director
• Jon Messent - Company Secretary and Group General Counsel

Former Staff

• John Chisholm - chairman, left QinetiQ in 2010
• Graham Love - chief executive until November 2009
• George Tenet - non-executive director, former Director of the CIA, left QinetiQ in February 2008
• Dame Pauline Neville-Jones is a former Chair Qinetiq plc,

Affiliations

• Defence Manufacturers Association
• QinetiQ was a donor to the Science Media Centre in 2005 according to the SMC.

Lobbying firms

• Interel Consulting UK

Contact

Registered office:

Cody Technology Park

Ively Road

Farnborough

Hampshire

GU14 0LX

Website: http://www.qinetiq.com

Related Articles

• Hans Kundnani, Former CIA chief joins Qinetiq, The Guardian, October 24, 2006